When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a practical joke or two to teach the knight a lesson.
Is this for you? If you like your theater filmed with a thick layer of old-fashioned dust and actors who project their voices to the back row of a nonexistent auditorium, you might get a kick out of Die lustigen Weiber. If you need something snappy or modern, look elsewhere. This is for the kind of person who enjoys wa...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Carl Hoffmann
Richard Smith
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"Is this for you? If you like your theater filmed with a thick layer of old-fashioned dust and actors who project their voices to the back row of a nonexistent auditorium, you might get a kick out of Die lustigen Weiber. If you need something snappy or modern, look elsewhere. This is for the kind of person who enjoys watching 1930s German cinema experiments without needing everything to make perfect, logical sense. There is a lot of frantic energy here that feels very much like a stage play tape..."
William Shakespeare, Georg Zoch
Germany
1936 · IMDb 6.7
