The film painting is a simultaneous whole to be retro-lit, its material is taken from biblical laconism: Herod marries his brother's wife, Herodias, mother of Salome. John the Baptist condemns this union and is imprisoned by Herod, who nevertheless fears eliminating him given the reputation of the...
"We realize History principally as the struggle of social classes and society as the very last cause of all forms of destiny its members can know" - Bertolt Brecht
