Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for sexually active humans. As a result, Panizza was imprisoned for obscenity.
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Genres
Drama
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- Director
- Werner Schroeter
- Writer
- Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Roberto Lerici, Horst Alexander
- Released
- 1982-03-12
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
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