Day of the Idiots is a 1981

1981 in film

-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....

 West German

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

 psychological fantasy film

Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered to be distinct from science fiction film and horror film, although the genres do overlap...

 drama directed and written by Werner Schroeter

Werner Schroeter

Werner Schroeter was a German film director and screenwriter, who some consider among the most important German writer-directors of the post-war period.-Biography:...

. It stars Carole Bouquet

Carole Bouquet

Carole Bouquet is a French actress and fashion model, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1977. Bouquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France....

 as a disturbed mental patient with an inclination to remove her clothes and Ingrid Caven

Ingrid Caven

Ingrid Caven is a German film actress and singer. Her younger sister Trudeliese Schmidt was an opera singer and also an actress.Caven has appeared in over 50 films since her film debut in 1969 in the short film...

 as Dr. Laura and Christine Kaufmann

Christine Kaufmann

Christine Maria Kaufmann is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured....

 as Ruth.

The film was nominated for a Golden Palm Award at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival

1982 Cannes Film Festival

- Jury :*Giorgio Strehler *Jean-Jacques Annaud *Suso Cecchi d'Amico *Geraldine Chaplin *Gabriel García Márquez *Florian Hopf *Sidney Lumet *Mrinal Sen...

 and won best film at the 1982 German Film Awards going to director Werner Schroeter

Werner Schroeter

Werner Schroeter was a German film director and screenwriter, who some consider among the most important German writer-directors of the post-war period.-Biography:...

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Cast

• Carole Bouquet
  Carole Bouquet
  Carole Bouquet is a French actress and fashion model, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1977. Bouquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France....
  
   as Carole
• Ingrid Caven
  Ingrid Caven
  Ingrid Caven is a German film actress and singer. Her younger sister Trudeliese Schmidt was an opera singer and also an actress.Caven has appeared in over 50 films since her film debut in 1969 in the short film...
  
   as Dr. Laura
• Christine Kaufmann
  Christine Kaufmann
  Christine Maria Kaufmann is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured....
  
   as Ruth
• Ida Di Benedetto
  Ida Di Benedetto
  Ida Di Benedetto is an Italian actress and film producer. She has appeared in 53 films and television shows between 1974 and 2004. She starred in the film The Whores, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   as Elisabet
• Carola Regnier as Ninon
• Mostefa Djadjam as Alexander
• Hermann Killmeyer as Markus
• Marie-Luise Marjan
  Marie-Luise Marjan
  Marie-Luise Marjan is a German actress.Marie-Luise Marjan is best known for her role as Helga Beimer in the German Television Series Lindenstraße...
  
   as Schwester Marjan
• Magdalena Montezuma as Zigeunerin
• George Stamkoski as himself
• Tamara Kafka
• Dana Medřická
  Dana Medřická
  Dana Medřická was a Czechoslovak film actress. She appeared in over 60 films between 1944 and 1983.-Selected filmography:* Černí myslivci * Guard 13 * Lidé z maringotek...
  
  
• Fritz Schediwy
• Jana Plichtová