Unusually Gothic : Robert Sigl's Laurin (1987)

Marcus Stiglegger revives a lost Gothic treasure in this brief discussion of Robert Sigl's Laurin—a rare case of German genre film-making and the heir to FW Murnau's legacy. Phantastic genre cinema is very rare in contemporary Germany—especially in the 1980s, the time when Italian horror reached another peak with Dario Argento's Opera (1985). The cliché of the German "easy comedy" ruled mainstream film production at the time, and so it appeared a kind of miracle when 27-year-old writer/director Robert Sigl was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize in 1988 for his debut feature: the Gothic horror fairytale Laurin.

Metadaten
Author:	Marcus Stiglegger
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1145186
URL:	http://www.kinoeye.org/03/11/stiglegger11.php
ISSN:	1475-2441
Document Type:	Article
Language:	English
Year of Completion:	2003
Year of first Publication:	2003
Publishing Institution:	Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:	2010/01/19
Tag:	Sigl, Robert
GND Keyword:	Laurin
Page Number:	2
Note:	Copyright © Kinoeye 2001-2018
Note:	Erschienen in: Kinoeye, 3.2003, Nr. 11
Source:	http://www.kinoeye.org/03/11/stiglegger11.php ; (in:) Kinoeye. New Perspectives on European Film, Vol 3, Issue 11, 13 Oct 2003
HeBIS-PPN:	22356964X
Institutes:	keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern
Dewey Decimal Classification:	7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 790 Freizeitgestaltung, darstellende Künste, Sport
Sammlungen:	Sammlung Musik, Theater, Film / Literatur zum Film
Licence (German):	Deutsches Urheberrecht

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