Wastebook scenes

The film is adapted from a play by Cyrille Offermans Lichtenberg, scenes at the dawn of a new era". Although the protagonist shares some features with the experimental physicist and writer George Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), who wrote the famous Sudelbücher and numerous letters, the film does not pretend any historical accuracy with respect to the real Lichtenberg, but focuses on Offermans' hybrid [partial fictitious] personage. The result is not an interplay between fact and fiction, but a sort of view of Lichtenberg, mouthing some 19th- and 20th- century authors he couldn't have known, strictly speaking, but whose alleged fantastic formulations seem to follow from his own writings in a natural way.

Country:

Netherlands

Genre:
Duration:

90 minutes

Year:

1994

Director:

Frans van de Staak

Cast:
Michiel Nooter

Marlies Heuer

Rik van Uffelen

Crew:
Frans van de Staak

Director

Jan Wich

Cinematography