Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987
The Greatest Love Drama of All Time
Directed by Christoph Schlingensief
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Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the distant thunder of the boiling sea. The film’s characters – riddled with unconscious desires – find themselves imprisoned on an island. Drawing parallels to the work of British filmmaker Derek Jarman and staring Jarman’s actress-muse Tilda Swinton, Schlingensief’s raw and almost mythological film stands in contrast to his more offensive efforts.
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- Director
- Christoph Schlingensief
- Written by
- Christoph Schlingensief
- Produced by
- Christoph Schlingensief, Wolfgang Schulte
- Cinematographer
- Dominikus Probst
- Editor
- Christoph Schlingensief
- Studio
- DEM Film
- Origin country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Language
- German
- TMDB
- 5.3/10 (17 votes)
- IMDb
- 6.2/10 (329 votes)
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