Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
1984The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines by manufacturing (and then publicly destroying) its own celebrity: the wealthy, handsome playboy Dorian Gray.
Acted in
Veruschka von Lehndorff
as Dorian Gray / Don Luis de la Cerda
Delphine Seyrig
as Dr. Mabuse / Grand Inquisitor of Seville
Tabea Blumenschein
as Andamana
Toyo Tanaka
as Chinese Servant Hollywood / Narrator
Irm Hermann
as Passat / Norn
Magdalena Montezuma
as Golem / Norn
Barbara Valentin
as Susy / Norn
Luc Alexander
Horst Benrath
Jonathan Briel
as Dr. Spiegelwelt
Roderick Castillo
Robbie Darsano
Victor Dzidzonou
Fritz Ewert
Don Grant
Gary Indiana
Hanno Jochimsen
Marianne Langfeldt
Else Nabu
as One of the Singers at the Press Reception
Yasuko Nagata
Joy Peters
Joachim von Ulmann