Terese Schulmeister

Christof Columbus succeeds to convince Queen Isabel of Spain to equip him to sail accross the Atlantic. This and what happens to the Spaniards when they meet the indigenous people is shown in this film shot on the island of La Gomera.

"Disobedience" - tells of the loss of illusions and utopias. Growing up in a Viennese family, marked by the father's vivacious dominance and public fame as editor-in-chief of the 'press', as well as by the mother's puzzling grief for husband and children, Terese seeks another life and joins the commune of action artist Otto Mühl. However, the initially seemingly free love and life experiment fails increasingly.

These Shorts are completely acted by the children of the Muehl Kommune and drawing the lives of Dschingis Kahn, Stalin, Hitler, Picasso, and Columbus. All films have been produced from on 1985 up to 1987. 1991 Muehl has been sentenced to seven years of prison - which was the end of the Kommune. The Commune Friedrichshof von 1972–90 has been funded and profoundly influenced by the austrian artist Otto Mühl in the eighties the commune bought a video equipment and started to produce films. This Films are rare Documents of an social experiment having not succeeded. Based on an idea by OTTO MÜHL Directed By Therese Schulmeister