Ticket of No Return A Film by Ulrike Ottinger Germany 1979 35 mm, color, 107 minutes Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduction, 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 etc. Award: Audience Award of Sceaux, France distributed by Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek e.V. BERLIN TEGEL — REALITY BERLIN TEGEL — REALITY PLEASE She, a woman of exquisite beauty, of classical dignity and harmonious Raphaelesque proportions, a woman, created like no other to be Medea, Madonna, Beatrice, Iphigenia, Aspasia, decided one sunny winter day to leave La Rotonda. 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 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 von Hasperg 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 by 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 Distributor: Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek e.V. Potsdamer Str. 2 D-10785 Berlin Germany Contact: Karl Winter fon +49-30-269 55 150 fax +49-30-269 55 111 Sales: Available at Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduction