Steppenwolf
1974, Film, 107 min, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 62
For madmen only.
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?
Directed by Fred Haines
Cast
- Max von Sydow as Harry Haller
- Dominique Sanda as Hermine
- Pierre Clémenti as Pablo
- Carla Romanelli as Maria
- Roy Bosier as Aztec
- Alfred Baillou as Goethe
- Niels-Peter Rudolph as Gustav
- Helmut Förnbacher as Franz
- Charles Regnier as Loering
- Eduard Linkers as Mr. Hefte
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