Theater in Trance
1981, German. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder visited for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival in 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater: Antonin Artaud's "The Theater and its Double". The audience is left to wonder how much of Artaud's radical and beautiful vision is realized in contemporary theater.
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- 1h 31m
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- German
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- Released
- 20 August 1981
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- Germany
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- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Theater in Trance isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 20 August 1981. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Theater in Trance (1981) was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.