Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse (1984) AKA The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press

In Ulrike Ottinger’s contemporary reinvention of the famous morality tale, fin de siècle dandy Dorian Gray is reimagined as a drag role, played without comment on the switch by Veruschka von Lehndorff in the male lead. Ottinger’s collision of Oscar Wilde and Fritz Lang features Delphine Seyrig as one “Dr. Mabuse,” the head of a sinister multinational newspaper agency that conspires to create, control, and destroy celebrity figure Dorian Gray. The film is an odyssey through eye-popping tableaux, including a trip to an unforgettable underworld.

Director: Ulrike Ottinger. AKA The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press.
Writer: Ulrike Ottinger.
Stars: Veruschka von Lehndorff, Delphine Seyrig, Tabea Blumenschein, Toyo Tanaka, Irm Hermann, Magdalena Montezuma, Barbara Valentin.

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