Synopsis
Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre is the first full-length and last animated movie by Walerian Borowczyk, produced in France. It consists of a sequence of loosely connected scenes, much like a vaudeville program, in which Mr. and Mrs. Kabal perform absurd, surreal, and sometimes cruel acts. Borowczyk introduced the personnel in his short film Le Concert de Monsieur et Madame Kabal in 1962.
"The dark and grotesque story of a married couple: the wife - a mechanical monster made up of iron parts, and her henpecked husband. When Mrs. Kabal eats a butterfly, she gets indigestion and her husband has to travel to his wife's insides to search for the cause of her illness. The film includes colour photographic inserts - Mrs. Kabal's dreams."
Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre mostly uses a mixture of cut-out and drawn animation, but also incorporates clippings of old illustrations and photographs and even a processed live-action appearance by the director himself. Most images are black-and-white, with on...
Credits
Director (1)
Actor (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Cinéastes Associés
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producers : André G. Brunelin, Jacques Forgeot
- Screenwriter : Walerian Borowczyk
- Director of Photography : Guy Durban
- Editor : Claude Blondel
- Sound Recordist : Louis Perrin
- Voice : Louisette Rousseau, Pierre Collet
- Camera Operator : Francis Pronier
- Production Manager : Pierre Pauquet
- Foley artist : Claude Blondel
- Artistic Director : Walerian Borowczyk
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : Anthology film
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified