Fall 1918. Lieutenant Alfred Kiekeritz, discharged from the military
field hospital, is transferred - as a commandant - to the Galician town
of Turka. An aesthete, ill with TB, he is well aware of his impending
death and by obsessive thinking and talking about it, he is trying to
give meaning to his fading life, for instance by collecting beautiful
objects.
One of the best films in the director's output and another of his works portraying the image of a vanishing world. A story about death, about a man dying and the fading of an era - and also, about the absurd.
One of the best films in the director's output and another of his works portraying the image of a vanishing world. A story about death, about a man dying and the fading of an era - and also, about the absurd.