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Ticket of No Return
Tabea Blumenschein... She purchased a ticket of no return to Berlin-Tegel. She wanted to forget her past, or rather to abandon it like a condemned house. She wanted to concentrate all her energies on one thing, something all her own. To follow her own destiny at last was her only desire. Berlin, a city in which she was a complete stranger, seemed just the place to indulge her passion undisturbed. Her passion was alcohol, she lived to drink and drank to live, the life of a drunkard. Her resolve to live out a narcissistic, pessimistic cult of solitude strengthened during her flight until it reached the level at which it could be lived.
The time was ripe to put her plans into action.
Introduction, excerpt from the script


The movement of transformation in this film has the opposite trajectory as the previous film Madame X. There women come from very specific backgrounds to journey into the unknown, here a woman without a name comes from an unknown place and engages in a most specific sight-seeing tour of Berlin based on her interest in alcoholic beverages. In a sense this project also represents the exploration of the unknown, and death and destruction await her equally at the end of each journey, that to the extreme outer regions of adventure as well as that of total narcissistic retreat into the self.
Ulrike Ottinger



Text (German language):
Ulrike Ottinger
masculin feminin



Cast/Staff
She Tabea Blumenschein
Drinker from Zoo Lutze
Social Question Magdalena Montezuma
Exact Statistics Orpha Termin
Common Sense Monika von Cube
Dwarf Paul Glauer
Singer Nina Hagen
Director Willy Günther Meisner
Boss Kurt Raab
Transvestite Volker Spengler
at the Artist Table

Eddie Constantine, Ginka Steinwachs, Mercedes Vostell, Wolf Vostell
and

The Destroyers,Drahtseilartisten of Circus Renz, Ulrike Ottinger, Raul Giminez, Ila by Hasperg etc.
Narrator Ulrike Ottinger
Screenplay
Director
Set Design
Cinematographer



Ulrike Ottinger
Executive Producer Marianne Gassner
Assistant Director Ila von Hasperg
Assistant Cinematographer Amadou Seitz
Lighting Manfred Bogdahn
Set Decoration Raul Gimenez
Costumes Tabea Blumenschein
Make-up, Wardrobe Detlef Pleschke
Editor Ila von Hasperg
Editing Assistant Pamela Page
Sound Margit Eschenbach
Sound Assistant Holger Gimpel
Mixing Hans-Dieter Schwarz
Music Peer Raben
Song ("Lasset uns trinken") Nina Hagen
Supported by
Filmförderungsanstalt, Berlin
Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Spielfilm, Berlin





Premiere:
Oktober 27, 1979, 13th Hofer Filmtage



Festivals:
Filmfestival Berlin 1980
Cannes (Semaine de la Critique) 1980
Edinburgh 1980
Sceaux Festival des Femmes 1980
New Delhi, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago u.a.



Awards:
Audience Award of Sceaux, France 1980



Distribution:
Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek e.V.
Potsdamer Str. 2
10785 Berlin
Germany
Contact: Karl Winter
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Sales:
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