Phaidros

Phaidros

98 mins | Sept. 14, 2018

Phaidros is based on Plato's eponymous dialogue and plays in an LBQT+ milieu of a present-day metropolis. The actor Emil is meant to embody the character of the poet Phaedrus in a battle of words with Werner Maria, who slips into the role of Socrates. When the borders between friendship and sexual initiation soon blur beyond the events on stage, too, the shrill, carnivalesque scenario turns into grotesque love triangles and quadrangles, which ultimately even cause a casualty.

Phaidros

98 mins | Sept. 14, 2018

Phaidros
Phaidros is based on Plato's eponymous dialogue and plays in an LBQT+ milieu of a present-day metropolis. The actor Emil is meant to embody the character of the poet Phaedrus in a battle of words with Werner Maria, who slips into the role of Socrates. When the borders between friendship and sexual initiation soon blur beyond the events on stage, too, the shrill, carnivalesque scenario turns into grotesque love triangles and quadrangles, which ultimately even cause a casualty.
Producers Minus Pictures
Original title Phaidros
Directors Mara Mattuschka
Writers Mara Mattuschka

Cast

Julian Sharp

as Emil Bach

Alexander E. Fennon

as Werner Maria Strauss

Nicola Filippelli

as Maurizio

May Teodosio

as Lorelei

Tamara Mascara

as Madame Oh