The Miraculous Mandarin

(1985)

Genres: Music

Year: 1985

Runtime: 20 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Peter Braatz

Cast: Rainer Bellenbaum, Frieder Butzmann, Mike Hentz, Andrea Jänike, Uwe Jahnke, Trini Trimpop

Plot

An experimental film based on an 18-minute version of Béla Bartók's composition of the same name. Bartók's one-act opera is about a young woman who is forced by three crooks to lure men into an ambush, where they are then robbed.