Film

The Miraculous Mandarin

198520mMusic

Director: Peter Braatz
Year: 1985

An experimental film based on an 18-minute version of Béla Bartók's composition of the same name. Bartók's one-act opera is about a young woman who is forced by three crooks to lure men into an ambush, where they are then robbed.

Top cast

Rainer Bellenbaum

Betrunkener

Frieder Butzmann

Gangster

Mike Hentz

Mandarin

Andrea Jänike

Mädchen

Uwe Jahnke

Messer-Mann

Trini Trimpop

Gang Boss

Directed by

Peter Braatz

Written by

Peter Braatz