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Bunbury

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The two dandies Algernon and Jack love the double life. In order to reconcile vice and pleasure with their social obligations, both of them have made up lies: Algernon invents a sick friend named Bunbury so that he can visit him in the country as often as possible, and Jack pretends to take care of his brother Ernst having to come to town regularly.
In einem Jagdhaus, fernab der Stadt, inmitten eines Zuchtwalds von gigantischen Ausmaßen, warten die Generalin und der Schriftsteller auf die Ankunft des Generals: ein stolzer Stalingrad-Veteran, Großgrundbesitzer, Jäger und ranghoher Politiker auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht. Es schneit, und der Bedienstete Asamer heizt ein gegen die winterliche Kälte. Das Gespräch der Generalin mit dem Dichter kreist um den Finalzustand, in dem sich der alte General und dessen Welt entgegen dem Anschein tatsächlich befinden.
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Director Lucia Bihler translates this iconic parable into a series of transformation phases that address questions about loneliness, loss of trust, powerlessness and the urge to survive in today's world. In this way, she approaches the story of the modern prodigy Franz Kafka, who was born in Prague in 1883 and died in Kierling, near Vienna, in 1924, a century ago, in a pictorial, very physical way.