Movie

Phaidros (2018)

• September 14, 2018
• 1h 38m

Overview

Phaidros is based on Plato's eponymous dialogue and plays in an LBQT+ milieu of a present-day metropolis. The actor Emil is meant to embody the character of the poet Phaedrus in a battle of words with Werner Maria, who slips into the role of Socrates. When the borders between friendship and sexual initiation soon blur beyond the events on stage, too, the shrill, carnivalesque scenario turns into grotesque love triangles and quadrangles, which ultimately even cause a casualty.

Director

Mara Mattuschka

Writers

Mara Mattuschka

Starring

Julian Sharp, Alexander E. Fennon, Nicola Filippelli