Honorable Brother

The Chinese classical novel ‘Outlaws of the Marches’ (written by Shi Nai-An in the middle of the 14th century and revised by Luo Guan-Zhong a few decades later), describes the fights of noble robber-communities against corrupt emperors. The heroes meet each other during their wanderings and then fall into greetings and kowtows in a typical Chinese ceremony. Heroes do not always acknowledge each other at first glance, so sometimes they start with a fight which suddenly turns into greeting, kowtowing and excuses.In Honorable Brothers (playing in the present time) two characters wander through the mountains. One is presenting himself as V.I. Lenin. He is armed with a ‘magic bread’. The other one is a ‘non-combat parachutist’, fallen down in France on his way from Iraq to Guantanamo. His mysterious weapon is an unpacked parachute. The rest more or less corresponds to the Chinese background. The men are meeting, separating, meeting again, kowtowing, fighting and kowtowing.