Steppenwolf
For madmen only.
107 mins
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
Niels-Peter Rudolph
Gustav
Helen Hesse
Frau Hefte
Melvin Fishman
Producer
Richard Herland
Producer
Fred Haines
Director
Fred Haines
Writer
Ernst Bertschi
Assistant Director
Jaroslav Bradáč
Animation
Nada Pinter
Script Supervisor
Velja Sakota
Assistant Camera
Thilo Theilen
Associate Producer
Ian Crafford
Sound Editor
Charlie Mariano
Musician
Petra von Oelffen
Associate Editor
Bill Rowe
Sound Recordist
Mati Klarwein
Painter
Else Heckmann
Costume Design
George Gruntz
Original Music Composer
Tomislav Pinter
Director of Photography
Peter J. Sprague
Executive Producer
Leoš Karen
Art Direction