Beyond Good and Evil
- Director: Liliana Cavani
- Writer: Liliana Cavani
- Producer: Silvio Clementelli; Esa De Simone
CGiii Comment
An arrogant and ludicrous film.
First...if you know nothing about Nietzsche (and Belle Epoque)...then, you'll find it unbearably torturous...and, terminally boring.
Second...the international cast, all dubbed into Italian...woefully bad, laughably so.
Cavani's pretension has done nothing but alienate and exclude the audience.
Futile film-making.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicting Nietzsche's opium addiction and madness meritorious.
Cast & Characters
Dominique Sanda as Lou Andreas-Salome;
Erland Josephson as Friedrich Nietzsche;
Robert Powell as Paul Ree;
Virna Lisi as Elisabeth Nietzsche;
Michael Degen as Karl Andreas;
Elisa Cegani as Franziska Nietzsche;
Umberto Orsini as Bernard Foester;
Philippe Leroy as Peter Gast;
Carmen Scarpitta as Malvida;
Nicoletta Machiavelli as Amanda;
Amedeo Amodio as Dottor Dulcamara, il diavolo;
Renato Scarpa as Psichiatra;
Clara Colosimo as Trude, the maid;
Roberto Bruni as Professor Julius Longbehn;
Mircha Carven as Wolfgang