Film & lecture as part of the "Psychoanalysis & Art" series
"Doctor Strange or How I Learned to Love the Bomb" Stanley Kubrick 1963
as part of the series "Psychoanalysis & Art" with Peter Gabriel (Heidelberg)
"Doctor Strangelove or How I Learned to Love the Bomb" is a biting, world-famous satire by cult director Stanley Kubrick on the absurdities of armament and the Cold War. The lecture will focus on the question of the extent to which the frightening reality that continues to exist is represented in the film.
About the film
An insane American general, Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), feels more and more threatened by the communist world conspiracy. One day he goes completely mad. He marches the American atomic bomb fleet towards the Soviet Union. Because the general finally takes the secret of the recall code to his grave, American President Muffley (Peter Sellers) is forced to reveal all the details about the approaching death bombers to the Soviet premier on the Red Phone. The Red defense is able to shoot down all but one of the bombers!
Filmed in England in 1963 during the Vietnam War and shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis. The US military tried to prevent its release as they feared it would cause too much concern among the population; the film's release was postponed until January 1964 due to Kennedy's assassination.
Today, the film is considered one of the most successful (black) comedies in film history.
Drama, Great Britain 1963, Director: Stanley Kubrick ("2001 - A Space Odyssey", "The Shining"), 94 minutes, FSK 16
Admission 6 euros
