Außer Atem nach Jean-Luc Godard

In the organizer's words:

OUTSIDE ATEM
freely adapted from Jean-Luc Godard
In a version by Alexander Ritter
A production of the Rottstr 5 Theater

With
Lise Wolle, Henry Morales

Directed by
Alexander Ritter

Assistance
Sofie Vetter, Jasmina Dittrich

Lighting
Stanislav Otremba, Alexander Ritter

photos
Jonas Domrath

trailer
Siegersbusch Film Wuppertal

production
Alexander Ritter, Oliver Paolo Thomas

Duration: approx. 90 minutes

"When you are afraid, or amazed, or both at the same time, you have a strange gleam in your eye."

When petty criminal Michel is on his way to Paris in a stolen luxury car, he gets caught up in a police checkpoint and shoots a policeman by accident. On the run, he goes into hiding with the love of his life, Patricia, and tries to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. The two spend a few intense days full of existential conversations and physical closeness. But the police get onto the couple's trail and put pressure on Patricia, who suddenly has to choose between Michel and her independence in life.

Jean-Luc Godard's debut film "Out of Breath" was a revolutionary film that broke all the rules of its time and is still considered one of the masterpieces of film history.

[PRESS REVIEWS]

On the intimate stage, two Rott5 newcomers make a grandiose debut that is celebrated by the audience.
(Hallo Herne)

The wonderful soundtrack sets the tone for the production at the Rottstr5 Theater. The artistic director of the district's hippest off-stage theater is less interested in the crime story than in the tragically ending love affair.
(Hello Herne)

Alexander Ritter has picked up on this in his highly dramatic eighty-minute chamber play by interrupting the chronology of events in Patricia's apartment with scenic digressions and pantomime interludes and congenially supplementing them with external texts.
(Hello Herne)