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
00:01:12 and the weekly bill of mortality must be higher than ever.
00:01:43 Bring out the dead!
00:02:16 but a bit impatient at being pent up within doors
00:02:26 whose sulphurous and nitrous particles are assisting
00:02:54 Perhaps I should follow Dr Berwick's advice...
00:03:07 and than open the door and let the air carry it all out
00:03:16 Hey! Lock her up!
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.
00:05:52 The effluvia affects the sound
00:06:04 and agitating their spirits.
00:06:51 But then who durst smell of that breath for his information
00:07:05 that it might be distinguished by the party's breathing...
00:07:16 living creatures...
00:08:43 I came to take my leave of you.
00:09:36 Bring out your dead!
00:12:46 that the people sat still looking at one another...
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