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Einar Schleef: theatre history from the archive
A documentary made from archive footage approaches Einar Schleef and a theatre history that cannot be repeated.
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Sandra Prechtel’s documentary approaches the theatre-maker Einar Schleef primarily through archival images and voices. Its cinema release raises the question of how a portrait emerges from surviving material – and what its editing leaves open.
READ THE BACKGROUNDA documentary made from archive footage approaches Einar Schleef and a theatre history that cannot be repeated.
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