Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal (1967)
December 6, 1967Release Date
Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal (1967)
December 6, 1967Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Louisette Rousseau
Mme. Kabal (voice)

Pierre Collet
M. Kabal (voice)

Louis Jojot

Renata Astruc

Jacqueline Boivin

Edith Catry

Yvonne Landry

Kathy Luc

Maîthé Mansoura

Mathé Mansoura
Actress

Mei-Chen Chalais

Walerian Borowczyk
Director / Writer / Production Design

Guy Durban
Director of Photography

Claude Blondel
Editor / Foley Artist

Gérard Cox
Camera Operator

Philippe Malémont
Camera Operator

Claudette Coulant
Makeup Artist

Serge Groffe
Makeup Artist

Mohamed Boughaba
Still Photographer

Daniel Mamet
Electrician

Daniel Pauquet
Production Manager

Brigitte Duvergé
Assistant Director

Claude Copin
Assistant Director

André G. Brunelin
Executive Producer

Jacques Forgeot
Producer

Avenir de Monfred
Original Music Composer

Francis Pronier
Director of Photography / Camera Operator

Jean Guerbette
Unit Manager

Madeleine Quiquandon
Unit Production Manager

Louis Perrin
Sound

Marcellin Lerouge
Key Grip

Umbert Pieri
Assistant Camera
Media.

Details.
Release DateDecember 6, 1967
Original NameThéâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 20m
Genres
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Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre (Théâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal) is a 1967 French animated film directed by Walerian Borowczyk. It is Borowczyk's first feature-length film and his last animated film. 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.
A mixture of cut-out and drawn animation is used, but also clippings of old illustrations and photographs and even a processed live-action appearance by the director himself. Most images are black-and-white, with only the occasional coloured element. The sound design adds a lot to the surreal atmosphere. Mrs. Kabal speaks in an illegible collage of cut-up human sounds, sometimes translated into subtitles. The film won the Interfilm Award at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival in 1967.
"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."
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