'Platz Mangel' is an exclusive health resort somewhere in the mountains. A group of over-sixties are staying here and spend their days dieting, listening to treatises on spirituality and studying medical insurance policies. Every now and then a cable car appears that brings them in or takes them away. Initially it all appears very sad, until you realize that this is a production by Christoph Marth
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'Platz Mangel' is an exclusive health resort somewhere in the mountains. A group of over-sixties are staying here and spend their days dieting, listening to treatises on spirituality and studying medical insurance policies. Every now and then a cable car appears that brings them in or takes them away. Initially it all appears very sad, until you realize that this is a production by Christoph Marthaler. So there is nothing to be sad about, you will be like being here and will have plenty to laugh at.
In 'Platz Mangel', this Swiss director presents us with a masterly parody on the current wellness culture. As always he works magic with time, silence and music. 'Platz Mangel' is like a juke box that regularly emits the most diverse and heartbreaking songs - ranging from Schubert and Mahler to Brigitte Bardot and pop hits from the eighties. Between conversations on heart surgery and organ donorship, the patients sing as if their lives depend on it. This is Marthaler at his best: a gentle, melancholy reverie about life with top-class humour and music!
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