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The Promise
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Marianne & Juliane
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Das Versprechen
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Sheer Madness
: :Perhaps the most emotionally ambitious of Margarethe von Trotta's films, Sheer Madness explores the bond between an assured college professor, Olga (Hanna Schygulla), and neurotic, suicidal artist Ruth (Angela Winkler) who has withdrawn from the world. Olga embraces Ruth's talent while Ruth finds strength in Olga's confidence, but Ruth's insecure husband Franz (Peter Striebeck), a domineering figure who resents her empowerment and growing assurance, grows jealous of the bond and attempts to separate them. Social politics and individual psychology merge in a tragic story with a devastating climactic revelation. Beautifully shot by Fassbinder's ...
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The Second Awakening of Christina Klages
: :Margarethe von Trotta, the most audible female voice of the New German Cinema, had acted for film, written screenplays, and even codirected (The Lost Honor of Katrina Blum with her former husband Volker Schlondorff) before finally embarking on her first solo project in 1977. The Second Awakening of Christa Klages, based on the true story of a social worker who robs a bank to fund a failing day-care center, is an uncompromising work that tackles politics and social issues with a radical fervor and feminist perspective unseen in the work of her contemporaries. ...
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Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness
: :Margarethe von Trotta came into her own as one of the most important voices of the New German Cinema with her second film, Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness, a work she once described as 'a soul painting.' Maria (Jutta Lampe), a coldly efficient executive secretary to a big-wheel tycoon, tries to impress her own ambitions and drive for success on her fragile sister, a sensitive art student who becomes smothered by Maria and takes her own life. Avoiding her feelings of guilt and loss, Maria takes on a surrogate sister in the ...
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
: :A striking examination of the power of the police and excesses of the media, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum grows more pertinent every day. When the police burst into Katharina Blum's apartment, they fail to find the suspected terrorist they've been tracking and arrest Blum for harboring a fugitive. Immediately she becomes a media sensation; between the ruthless interrogation of the police, the even more invasive muckraking of a notorious tabloid, and harassment from the sensation-hungry public, Blum's ordinary life is turned inside out until she has to lash out to defend ...
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Marianne and Juliane
: :A striking examination of the power of the police and excesses of the media, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum grows more pertinent every day. When the police burst into Katharina Blum's apartment, they fail to find the suspected terrorist they've been tracking and arrest Blum for harboring a fugitive. Immediately she becomes a media sensation; between the ruthless interrogation of the police, the even more invasive muckraking of a notorious tabloid, and harassment from the sensation-hungry public, Blum's ordinary life is turned inside out until she has to lash out to defend ...
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Rosa Luxemburg
: :A striking examination of the power of the police and excesses of the media, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum grows more pertinent every day. When the police burst into Katharina Blum's apartment, they fail to find the suspected terrorist they've been tracking and arrest Blum for harboring a fugitive. Immediately she becomes a media sensation; between the ruthless interrogation of the police, the even more invasive muckraking of a notorious tabloid, and harassment from the sensation-hungry public, Blum's ordinary life is turned inside out until she has to lash out to defend ...
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