Superbia
The Pride
Germany 1986, 35mm, color, 15 minutes
Superbia — The Pride is the first of the Seven Deadly Sins
The introduction is made through early allegorical forms and figures (triumphal procession, dance of death, Baroque tragedy etc.) The triumphal procession of the giant haystack as a symbol of human vanities becomes a military parade of abrupt, functional and arrogant gestures. The most diverse musical fragments and rhythms intone the montage of details in the staged triumphal procession, juxtaposed with documentary images, including marches, ticker-tape parades and military review.
“I am pride. The proud root of all evil.
I am Superbia, the first of the seven capital sins. I am always the first.
The tree of wickedness grows out of me. My six daughters are its forbidden fruit:
gluttony - indolence - avarice - wrath - envy - lust.
But see for yourself how Luciphera Superbia, her coach, drawn by the six minor sins,
drives in triumph to her wedding with the world, accompanied by her retinue and by Blasphemia, her maid.”
– Prologue narrated by lrm Hermann
Photographs
Cast & Crew
| Beggar Countess | Delphine Seyrig |
| Bank Director | Irm Hermann |
| Chinese Dragon Princess | Else Nabu |
| General | Renate Schlesier |
| General | Ting-lLi |
| Samurai | Hisao Saito |
| Capitalist | Margie Ellgaard |
| Luciphera Superbia | Gabriele Heidecker |
| and | Wolfgang Petrick, Herbert Levine, Eva Meyer, Maria Rubina, Beatrice Stammer, Chris Smith, Annette Eckert, Judith Hackfeld, Gordana Mikovic, Martina Marx, Rita della Carbonara, Alfred und Mausi Buchelt, Bernhard-Jahn-Chor u.a. |
| Screenplay Director Cinematographer |
Ulrike Ottinger |
| Assistant Director | Christine Egerland |
| Assistant Cinematographer | Bernd Balaschus |
| Executive Producer | Herbert Kerz |
| Coordination | Hanna Rogge |
| Set Manager | Horst Helbig |
| Costumes | Gisela Storch, Anne Jud, Hella Utesch |
| Make-Up | Barbara Marthaler, Manfred Schröder |
| Sculptor | Arndt von Diepenbroick |
| Set Painter | Heinz Bert Dreckmann |
| Editor | Bettina Böhler |
| Lighting | Alexander Junker |
| Sound | Margit Eschenbach |
| Sound Assistant | Bernard Mangiante |