Margarethe & Barbara
…& Hannah & Rosa & Marianne & Juliane. New German Cinema director Margarethe von Trotta has been working with actress Barbara Sukowa for over three decades, portraying women who think, question and rebel. GOETHE FILMS presents MARIANNE & JULIANE (1981), ROSA LUXEMBURG (1986) and HANNAH ARENDT (2012) as a conversation about female resilience.
MARIANNE AND JULIANE (DIE BLEIERNE ZEIT, Germany 1981, 106 min), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, with Barbara Sukowa, Jutta Lampe & Rüdiger Vogler
Golden Lion & FIPRESCI Awards & Golden Phoenix at Venice Film Festival 1981
Prix du Publique & Prix du Jury at the Créteil Films de Femmes 1981
2 German Film Awards 1982
Ranks #51 in The Female Gaze: Sight & Sound magazine’s selection of 100 overlooked films directed by women 2015
Marianne and Juliane are sisters growing up in West Germany in the 1950s, as the country moved from austerity to plenty but remained a place of repression and denial of its recent past. During the 1960s, both women fight for social change, but each in her own way: Juliane as a pro-abortion campaigner, Marianne by joining a communist terror organization. When Marianne dies suddenly in a high-security jail, Juliane dedicates herself to uncovering the true circumstances of her sister’s death. A story of political resistance and personal loss.
*Please note that this is an old film and the quality may not live up to todays’ standards. But enjoy this rare occasion to see a significant work of New German Cinema.
“A highly intelligent and profound story set against the politics of Cold War West Germany, as meaningful and poignant today as it was when it was made.“ – Sight & Sound Magazine
Details
Language: with English subtitles
Price: Tickets $10 at TIFF Bell Lightbox in person or by phone or online (as of 2 weeks prior to screening)