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The Suicide

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1996

Lothaire Bluteau, Ken Elston, Mark Van Fossen

Drama The tension arising between the demands of AIDS activism and Bordowitz's increasing desire to explore aspects of his own life outside the framework of AIDS resulted in the appropriation of a work from the Soviet avant-garde: Nikolay Erdman's play The Suicide. The protagonist, Semyon, tries to unyoke himself from the enforced optimism of a bureaucratic order that prohibits any discussion of disappointment and despair following the revolution. [+]

The Suicide

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