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another Glorious Day applause (Applaus)
GERMANY
Centered around a 2008 revival of The Brig, the inflammatory 1963 play
DENMARK
Thea Barfoed is a fiercely charismatic, alcoholic actress trying to change
Directors: Karin Kaper, Dirk Szuszies
that exposed the harsh realities inside a US Marine prison, this docu- Director: Martin Pieter Zandvliet her life and reconnect with the children she lost custody of in her
Producers: Karin Kaper, Film Berlin
mentary by Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszies puts former Marine Kenneth Producer: Mikael Rieks divorce. Her ex-husband – now married to a woman conspicuously dif-
H. Brown’s drama into historical perspective – and makes a case for its
Cinematographers:
Screenwriters: Andres Frithiof August,
ferent from Thea – is enchanted by his ex-wife’s determination, fueled
Ferdinand Teubner, Dirk Szuszies
ongoing relevance – through powerful scenes from the recent produc- Martin Pieter Zandvliet by what seems to be a real desire to make amends. But old habits die
Editor: Werner Bednarz
tion in Berlin as well as illuminating interviews with directors of the play Cinematographer: Jesper Tøffner hard, and soon Thea has returned to her old ways of addiction and self-
MS: A to Z
past and present, revival cast members, and the playwright himself. destruction.
MS: A to Z
Cast: Gene Ardor, Kesh Baggan,
Editor: Per Sandholt
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Gary Brackett, David Copley,

Cast: Paprika Steen, Michael Falch,

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Tommy McGinn
When Julian Beck and Judith Malina, the founders of New York’s radical Sara-Marie Maltha, Shanti Roney, Not only does Applause echo the cinema verité style of John Cassavetes,
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2009 / color, b&w / 95 min.
Living Theater, brought The Brig to their stage in the early 1960s, many
Otto Leonardo Steen Rieks,
but Thea is specifically reminiscent of Gena Rowlands’s character in A
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theater critics – not to mention the US Department of Defense – found
Noel Koch-Søfeldt, Malou Reymann,
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Woman Under the Influence. The part was specially written, however,
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it not just obnoxious but subversive. Rooted in the surrealist model
Uffe Rørbæk, Nanna Tange
for Dogme 95 darling Paprika Steen (The Celebration, SDFF 21; The
Karin KaPEr
of Theater of Cruelty, Brown’s claustrophobic vision of young, caged
2009 / color / 86 min.
Idiots), and the script contains just enough humor and warmth to allow
Karin Kaper began her career as
both a film and theatre actor. In 1985
Marines being transformed into automatons – performing a kind of her a measure of sympathy from the audience, who admires her efforts
she cofounded the ZATA theatre in
foot-stamping ballet at double-time as they’re verbally abused and
MarTin PiETEr zanDVLiET
and somewhat forgives her lapses. Meanwhile, first-time narrative
Munich, where she also performed. punched in the gut by their guards – outraged many and stirred others Born in Fredericia, Denmark, Martin feature director Martin Pieter Zandvliet brings his own style to the
Along with Dirk Szuszies, Kaper
to antiwar action. More than four decades later, with Americans again
Pieter Zandvliet is a self-taught director
production, rooted in his years as a documentary filmmaker. Having
directed The Last Mahadevi (2000),
on the battlefield, the play still strikes raw nerves. One of the young
and writer who started out as a
filmed Steen’s tour de force performances as Martha in Who’s Afraid of
winning the Viewers’ Best Film Award documentary editor. Zandvliet’s first
at the Ethnologic Film Festival in
cast members, explaining how violently it changes shape with each
film as a director, Angels of Brooklyn,
Virginia Woolf during its run at the Copenhagen Theatre, he uses the
Berlin. She has directed several short
performance, admits, “I’m under psychic stress for two hours.”
won a Danish Robert for Best Long
footage to show how Thea’s onstage persona permeates her offstage
and feature-length documentaries Documentary. Applause marks his debut being, thus bringing a deeper authenticity to the film.
with Szuszies as well.
As for us, the audience of Another Glorious Day (the title is extracted
as a screenwriter.
from a Marine slogan): we also feel assaulted by the relentless
DirK SzuSziES badgering of the prison guards and share in the dehumanization of
Studying pedagogy and sociology
the inmates. All to the good, according to Frank Burckner, the director
in Bielefeld, Germany, Dirk Szuszies
of the Berlin production, who claims that the play’s goal is to spread
switched his concentration to acting
in 1979 after enrolling in acting class
“a virus of peace in a war society.” Brown, meanwhile, vouches more
at the Theatre Institute in Bologna,
modestly for its authenticity: “I didn’t write The Brig,” he says. “The
Italy. For five years, Szuszies was Marine Corps did.”
a member of the Living Theatre,
performing throughout Europe. Since
1999, he and partner Karin Kaper
WORlD pREMiERE
have been directing documentaries.
Filmography
Sponsored by:
Public Playgrounds (2005)
Resist! (2003)
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