Noc Walpurgi

The stage entrance of the opera house on Walpurgis Night, 1969. Up-and-coming journalist Robert pretends to have arranged an interview with Nora Sedler, the star of the evening. Not long thereafter she appears in a somewhat ridiculous frog costume, intended to represent Princess Turandot. The light-hearted atmosphere is quickly transformed however, with every twist in the plot finding the viewer off-guard time and again: amongst the humorous anecdotes, with which Nora narrates her life story to Robert it's almost by chance that we learn that she was also a much sought-after singer prior to the war, and remained so at Auschwitz, where she spent the majority thereof due to her Jewish identity. At which point she suggests to Robert that they try the “game” which the SS guard, whom she dated to save her skin, was keen on playing with her at the time. Yet does he understand what Nora is getting at? PN