DER DRACHE

Directed by Fabian Hagedorn

Once upon a time, there was a DRAGON who had three heads and ruled over a city with an iron fist. He had trained the people there to be slaves, worn them down with fear, and fed them lies until they felt completely at home under his dictatorship. Everything was going swimmingly until… the rather fearless professional heroes, LANZELOT, showed up to put an end to the reign of terror. Normally, there were no problems—in fact, they were usually met with applause—when the dragon-slaying crew meddled in other people’s affairs without being asked. This time, however, resistance to the potential liberation stirred among the people. The tyrant had done a thorough job! In this battle, it would likely not be enough to simply slay the dragon… Go Lanzelots!

Written in 1943, Yevgeny Schwarz’s fairy tale—both poetic and terrifyingly funny—is a political parable about dictatorship and the spirit of subservience. It was so controversial in the year it was written that it was banned for 17 years, and it remains explosively relevant to this day.

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