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Once upon a time there was
a country known by the name of Laura Molloy. Laura Molloy was the name of this country. Only women lived in Laura MolloyEsmeralda del Rio was a woman. One day Esmeralda del Rio had the idea to undergo a series of transformations, which were to take her very far. So far did she go that she had no way of knowing how far she had gone. Two things were certain: Esmeralda del Rio was blond and in her own way she practiced a kind of magic which I would like to call 'blond magic'. Excerpt from the script This first film already contains many of the elements that reappear in Ulrike Ottinger's later films: an extraordinary woman, an unusual country and a chain of magic transformations that gives rise to a series of eccentric character depictions. This notion of transformation, taken from Virginia Woolf's Orlando, which contains the idea of death and destruction as well as resurrection, remains an important theme. The film was first shown in 1975 in Berlin. Ulrike Ottinger |
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| Premiere: March 27, 1975, Arsenal, Berlin in France: February 28, 1976 Cinémathèque Française, Paris Festivals: Bruxelles Filmfestival des Femmes 1977 Rotterdam 1978 Aperto 80 Biennale di Venezia etc. 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 All available Films on VHS or DVD |
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