The man who wanted to do nothing (Der faule Lars) Unfinished fairy-tale-video. Based on the danish folk tale „Lazy Lars“. Actors: Suse Brüne, Nick Cave et al Music: Rainer Lingk, Thomas Wydler, HDT Camera: Rike Anders, Ruth Marquès, HDT Script/editing/director: HDT Production: DFFB1986. Length: 7:00.

„Lazy Lars“ - so the original title - has remained a fragment on every level. There exists an unmixed 3/4 hour tape containing film music that Thomas Wydler, Rainer Lingk and I developed in the course of several nights.

There exists rehearsal tapes with Nick Cave and Suse Brühne and a few rather „kitschy“ self-staged productions at Havelsee (West-Berlin).

During the work on this project I was suffering from the illusion that somewhere in the world outside the film academy there was a financer /producer who might support a project for the reason that it otherwise could not be completed.

Not least of the remnants of this film is a 140-page script for an operette-like comedy about a lazy forestdweller in a long since vanished kingdom.