Created to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Syberberg's Parsifal, Prologue is both a fitting end and a new beginning to his body of work. Fragments from past and present intermingle, suspended and reanimated in a field of video distortion. The different layers - from Heinrich von Kleist's "Last Poem" (1809) to Edith Clever's monologues - connect apocalyptic transformation with images of childhood. With English subtitles.