Seven Servants is a USA - Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 co-production 1996

1996 in film

Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...

 German

Cinema of Germany

Cinema in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film.Unlike any other national cinemas, which developed in the context of relatively continuous and stable political systems, Germany witnesses major changes to its...

 drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 -comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 film made by Daryush Shokof

Daryush Shokof

Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...

. The movie is about a man (Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...

) who wants to unite and "connect" the races until his last breath.

Plot

An old man named Archie Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...

 hires seven servants of both genders and different races to get connected to him by plugging up his body openings until his last breath. The servants stay connected to the old man's body for the next ten days. They eat, sleep, and even go to the bathroom and fight thieves together. They overcome many difficulties by staying "united", until finally, an opera singer arrives to plug up his final facial opening and take the last breath away from him . Archie dies in peace, pleasure and harmony because he has the people around him "united" at last, even if it is only a "bodily" unification and through him as the catalyst.

Cast

• Anthony Quinn
  Anthony Quinn
  Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...
  
  
• David Warner
  David Warner (actor)
  David Warner is an English actor who is known for playing both romantic leads and sinister or villainous characters, both in film and animation...
  
  
• Alexandra Stewart
  Alexandra Stewart
  Alexandra Stewart is a Canadian actress.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Alexandra Stewart left for Paris, France, in 1958, to study art...
  
  
• Sonja Kirschberger
• Audra McDonald
  Audra McDonald
  Audra Ann McDonald is an American actress and singer. She currently stars in the ABC television drama Private Practice as Dr. Naomi Bennett. She has appeared on the stage in both musicals and dramas, such as Ragtime and A Raisin in the Sun...
  
  
• Reza Davoudi
• Ken Ard

External links

• http://www.longtale.com
• http://www.pathfinderpictures.com
• http://www.shokof.com
• Seven Servants at IFVC.com
• http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117911077
• http://www.awcm.us
• http://www.mtv.com/lyrics/gato_barbieri/seven servants
• http://www.busberg.de spiegel