Cycle Schedule

Cycle

From 28.05. To 31.05.2016.

Program of films by Margarethe von Trotta

Program of films by Margarethe von Trotta

Even though many consider her to be the most important woman of the German new wave, at the same time disregarding its far more radical representatives such as Helma Sanders-Brahms, Margarethe Von Trotta is undoubtedly one of its key figures. Nevertheless, she was the first one to reject the “feminist” label because she did not want to remain “ghettoized”. Her entire early opus was a continuous interweaving of the personal and political.

Related texts

Woman of Steel – Privately and Politically

DIRECTORS

Margarethe von Trotta

Films in cycle

Rosa Luxemburg

(1986.)

Directed by: Margarethe von Trotta
PHOTOGRAPHY: Franz Rath
Synopsis:

This is a historical biopic about the Polish-German political activist and leftist-pacifist revolutionary legend, Rosa Luxemburg, who was murdered in 1919 upon the German government’s order. The film follows her as a grown woman from the beginning of her political fight when she encouraged the worldwide revolution of the proletariat until her premature death after the WW I. She had her biggest supporter, both privately and professionally, in her partner Leo Jogiches, who later became her traitor...

digital, color, 123 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 28.05.2016 AT 20:00

Hannah Arendt

(Germany, 2012)

Directed by: Margarethe von Trotta
PHOTOGRAPHY: Caroline Champetier
Synopsis:

The story begins when Israel secret service arrest Adolf Eichmann. They take him to Jerusalem where he will be on trial for crimes he committed against Jews during WW II. Hannah Arendt, an esteemed Jewish-German philosopher who was forced to emigrate from Germany and move to the US, is also in Jerusalem to report about the trial for The New Yorker. Based on the “”trial of the century” she wrote her book “Report on the Banality of Evil” that caused many controversies...

color, digital, 113 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 30.05.2016 AT 19:00

Lost Honor of Katherina Blum

(Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, West Germany, 1975)

Directed by: Margarethe von Trotta
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jost Vacano
Synopsis:

Katharina Blum works in a lawyer’s office. One day she comes home with a man and spends the night with him. Next morning he is gone and the police are after her. Katharina does not say anything to the police because she does not even know anything about the man. But, the gossip newspaper publishes an article in which she is accused of being a collaborator of a dangerous anarchist…

color, 106'
PROJECTION:
Monday 30.05.2016 AT 21:00

Marianne and Juliane

(Die bleierne Zeit, Germany, 1981)

Directed by: Margarethe von Trotta
PHOTOGRAPHY: Franz Rath
Synopsis:

The story takes place in Germany in 1968 and the protagonists are two sisters, Marianne and Juliane. They both want, in their own ways, for the society to advance. With that goal in mind Juliane becomes an engaged journalist and Marianne joins a terrorist group. After Marianne is caught and put in solitary, Juliane is the only person permitted to visit her. After Marianne’s alleged suicide, Juliane starts an investigation and at the same time has to take care of her nephew.

color, digital, 106 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 31.05.2016 AT 21:00
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