The Periwig-Maker (Part 2)

The Periwig-Maker tells the story of a man who seals himself off in Medieval plague-infested London to escape the danger of infection.

"Besides its story about the plague and how every epidemic changes people's behavior, The Periwig-Maker asks some philosophical questions. It deals with the problem of responsibility for other people and for yourself: can you do wrong, when you do nothing... a very German question indeed. It also represents two different ways of living by the little girl and the wig maker: you can risk your life and live before you die, or you can prevent yourself from risking anything and live the life of a dead person. Keeping that in mind, the film has a positive twist at the end." -- Steffen Schäeffler

Year of Release: 1999
Production: Ideal Standard Film
Script, Design and Animation: Steffen Schäeffler
Producer: Annette Schäeffler
Other Contributors: Kenneth Branagh (narrator), Chris Heyne (composer), Philip Dale (animator), Stefan Busch (sound designer), Carlos Gangrel (character designer) and Mackinnon & Saunders Limited (puppets).

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Periwig-Maker
• Animation
• Steffen
• Schäeffler

[MrPoggin]

This is great, but it is not "medieval" as put in the description.

[samerte]

@RonRay i will deff check it out!! it is a very good quote!! and the story contains such a good message thank you so much!!

[RonRay]

@samerte

After replying to your post, I began thinking about the context that you was interested in and found that it and more comes from Daniel Defoe's "Journal of the plague year". If you run a search on Google with that information, you will find much on the subject.

[RonRay]

@samerte

So in the plague, it came to such a violence that the people sat still, looking at one another and seemed quite abandoned to despair. But the near view of death would soon reconcile men, one to another, so that another plague here would reconcile all differences. A close conversing with death would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us and bring us to see with different eyes than those in which we looked on things before.

[samerte]

Could you please write the words of the last speech he makes, the last 2 and half minutes . I just cant get all the words. Thank you this is a beautiful film.

[idreamedmusic]

Thanks so much for sharing this. Wonderful!

[lee2tre]

what is this about i dont get it lol