The Periwig-Maker

1999 · 15 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 641 VOTES · DIR. Steffen Schäffler

Overview

Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker.

Dialogue Timeline — 85 lines

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00:00:36 The Lord bless them
00:01:10 The plague rages dreadfully.
00:01:22 of the people in this miserable city.
00:02:12 It pleases God that I am still spared.
00:02:21 The air remains my greatest worry.
00:02:31 the situation does not improve.
00:02:57 and enter into another measure for airing and sweetening my room.
00:03:10 with a blast of gunpowder.
00:03:59 But I don't believe in this Turkish predestinarianism
00:04:10 Without lessening the awe of the judgement of God
00:04:21 for supernatural operation
00:05:38 That is to say, by some uncertain steams or fumes.
00:05:48 of the sores of the sick person.
00:06:02 putting their blood into an immediate ferment
00:06:46 Maybe it might be known by the smell of their breath.
00:06:59 in order to distinguish the odeor?
00:07:10 Where the breath condenses
00:07:22 such as dragons, snakes, serpents...
00:08:55 I've got the sickness and I shall die tonight
00:09:42 Bring out your dead!
00:12:49 and seemed quite abandoned to despair.
00:13:02 so that another plague year would reconcile all differences.
00:13:16 and bring us to see with different eyes
00:14:31 - that it had been cut off of the heads of people dead of the plague."

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed85
Dialogue density5.7 lines / min
First line00:00:36
Final line00:14:31

Production Record

DirectorSteffen Schäffler
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes641