Das Liebeskonzil (film)
Date: 1986
Region: Europe
Subject: Religion
Medium: Film Video
Artist: Oscar Panizza and Werner Schroeter
Confronting Bodies: Werner Schroeter
Dates of Action: 1986
Location: Innsbruck in 1986
Description of Artwork: A film adaptation of the play Das Liebeskonzil (The Council of Love), the director Werner Schroeter used a performance of the play by Teatro Belli in Rome as a basis and set it in the context of a reconstruction of Panizza's blasphemy trial.
The Incident: In support of its ruling, the European Court applied the principle of giving national definitions of human rights a certain latitude, regardless of the symbolic implications of upholding outright censorship at a European level.
Results of Incident: In 1993, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the decision an Austrian court made seven years earlier to stop the film.
Source: NCAC, Arne Ruth