Le Télescope de Schopenhauer

Un film de Kamen Kalev
Adapté du roman de Gérard Donovan “Schopenhauer’s Telescope”

In an unnamed village, in the middle of a civil war, one man digs a hole while anotherwatches over him.Over the course of the day a hole the size of a mass grave has been dug and we learna little more about their respective involvements in the sinister events in their countrythat have led to this point.The town baker and the teacher begin to talk and their philosophical conversationbecomes an odd Beckett-like dark comedy of the absurd, juxtaposed against the abjecthorror of the situation portrayed