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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 |
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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 fon +49-30-269 55 150 fax +49-30-269 55 111 verleih@fdk-berlin.de www.fdk-berlin.de for Northamerica: Women Make Movies 462 Broadway 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 USA fon +1-212-925-0606 fax +1-212-925-2052 info@wmm.com www.wmm.com Sales: Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduction Fichtestraße 34 D-10967 Berlin fon +49-30-692 93 94 fax +49-30-691 33 30 office@ulrikeottinger.com All available Films on VHS or DVD |
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