December 2: Marianne und Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit)

Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
West Germany 1981, 35mm, color, 114 min.
With Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler

The final movie in PG Kino's New German Cinema series is Margarethe von Trotta's "Die Bleierne Zeit" (US release: Marianne and Juliane), which zooms in on the relationship of two sisters: a revolutionary (Marianne) and an editor of a feminist magazine (Juliane). Set during the "Baader-Meinhof era," the two characters are loosely based on the lives of the sisters Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin (a leader of the Red Army Faction). In this context and from various perspectives, the two sisters, Marianne and Juliane, look back on their childhood during the Third Reich.

Wednesday, December 2 2009 at 8PM
Kaufmann Auditorium: Goldwin Smith Hall
In German with English subtitles
Preceded by an introduction and followed by an open discussion.
Free and open to the public

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