Frank Wedekind

A group of late 19th century German teenagers – silenced and controlled by a censorious society – discover a new world of feeling and freedom outside the classroom, with beautiful and devastating consequences.

The tale of teenagers growing up in an oppressed society, finding ways to fight back and discovering as individuals who they truly are.

William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in the title role—the enigmatic and alluring woman who is equal parts femme fatale, innocent girl, and abused victim. The men around her, whose lives she forever alters, are Johan Reuter as newspaper publisher Dr. Schön; Daniel Brenna as his composer son, Alwa; Paul Groves as the Painter; and Franz Grundheber as Schigolch. Susan Graham sings Countess Geschwitz, and Lothar Koenigs conducts Berg’s landmark score.

A performance of Alban Berg's opera recorded at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The opera, dark and satirical in tone, charts the story of the rise and fall of a femme fatale, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and, eventually, a bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper.

Live performance of Alban Berg's opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by Frank Wedekind, Lulu describes the social ascent and the demise of a deadly woman, driven by men to behave in murder, to her own. dead.

Young adults growing up in an oppressed society, finding ways to fight back and discovering as individuals who they truly are.

New peoduction, 2009. Filmed by the Royal Opera House in co-production with Opus Arte, June 13/17.

A group of young girls are brought up in a college within dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside the college's high walls. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie...

여학생들을 위한 특이한 사립학교에서는 어린 아이리스(Iris)를 포함한 새로운 학생들이 관에 모습을 드러낸다. 이 학교의 교사들인 마드모아젤 에바와 마드모아젤 에디스는 아이리스와 그녀의 동료 학생들에게 근처 숲을 통과하는 요정 같은 춤을 포함하는 학교의 커리큘럼을 소개한다. 밤이 되면, 여자로 태어나기 직전인 나이든 소녀들은 신비롭고 인생을 바꾸는 교훈을 받는다.

Since its premiere on 2 June 1937 in Zurich, Alban Berg's second opera "Lulu" has the reputation of being surrounded by scandals. On the one hand, this is due to the dubious character of the subject, the man-eating femme fatale, which Berg had taken from Frank Wedekind's two Lulu tragedies – "The Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box" – and combined into one opera libretto. On the other hand, Berg's window had (for personal reasons) repeatedly refused to have the opera completed, which was unfinished when Berg died. This video is of the unfinished two-act torso of "Lulu."

Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make trouble", from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Berg's score is intensely beautiful, and the rich characterisation brilliantly executed.

Peter Zadek's 1988 production with Susanne Lothar, recorded at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in 1991.

Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and whose son gives her a job. Lulu kills Dr Schon and goes to London to live with his son. Eventually, she becomes a prostitute and dies a victim of Jack the Ripper.

This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the Freudian truths about men's fear of women that Wedekind powerfully exposed. A kinetic melodrama of the rise of a femme-fatale and her fate at the hands of Jack-the-Ripper. Rethinking Pabst's silent film and Alban Berg's opera.

Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting. The film attempts to display sexual barriers and misconceptions, and about the role-playing and the confusion around the whole question of sexual and sensual involvement. The essence is the confrontation with self-deception, lies and the real fear of contact with both sexes.

A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom he marries off to a wealthy man.

Munich in the summer of 1899. In his insatiable greed for money, influence and enjoyment of life, the Marquis von Keith defies any moral law. Two women are obedient to him.

프랑크 베데킨트의 연작 희곡 과 를 각색한 무성 멜로드라마 걸작. 신문사 사장인 쇤 박사는 정부인 룰루에게 호화로운 아파트를 마련해준 한편, 내무부 장관의 딸과 결혼을 준비하고 있다. 하지만 박사의 내연관계를 알게 된 장관은 결혼을 허락하지 않고, 욕심 많고 어린애 같은 룰루 또한 장관의 딸을 포기하고 자신과 결혼하라고 조른다. 결국 쇤 박사는 어쩔 수 없이 룰루와 결혼하기로 하는데, 결혼식 당일 그는 자신의 아들을 포함한 모든 하객들이 룰루와 관계를 가졌다는 사실을 알게 된다. 격분한 박사는 권총을 휘두르며 하객들을 쫓아낸 후 룰루에게 동반자살을 권한다. 그러나 룰루는 박사를 쏜 후 프랑스를 거쳐 런던까지 도망가는데... 천진함과 음란함을 동시에 지니고 남자들을 파멸로 이끌어가는 유혹적인 여성을 통해 가부장적인 남성의 판타지를 보여주고 있는 영화. 할리우드의 무성영화 스타 루이즈 브룩스가 주연을 맡아 두려우면서도 결코 거부할 수 없는 팜므파탈의 매력을 유감없이 선보이고 있다.

Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and Lust”, he is indeed kicked out – instead of classmate Melchior Gabor, who actually penned it. Gabor was drawing on his experiences with neighbourhood girl Wendla. Then Wendla turns up pregnant. Stiefel descends into despair ... Exploitation between Eros and Thanatos in this “sexual tragedy of youth” based on Frank Wedekind’s play. Setting the film in the 1920s provided a chance to explore “modern” youth culture, complete with cigarettes, jazz music, the gramophone, and a goodly bit of alcohol. Richard Oswald, a master of films of manners and young sex beginning in the 1910s, fully explores the temptations of the youthful body, even early childhood flirtatiousness. At the same time, with his target audience in mind, the film laments the bigotry and double standards of the adult world.

Based on the play of the same name by Frank Wedekind.

Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go.

Based on the play Der Erdgeist by Frank Wedekind.

King Nicolo through hit egoism and slackness has lost his fame and power is now deposed, completely alone and walks through his former empire, unrecognized, in constant fear of people whom are foreign to him.

Based on the play of the same name by Frank Wedekind.

The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the noble Henri von Reithofen. Henri kills himself ruined by the horrendous expenses for Lulu. She however is fishing for the next rich patron, the much older Baron Waldheim. His son knows Lulu and warns his father that she will also hurt him. Waldheim succumbs to Lulus's insinuations and punishes his son.