free admission
introduced by Brķan Hanrahan, Faculty Fellow in the Dept. of Theatre, Film & Dance, who will also faciliate a post-screening discussion
Alexander Kluge's first film casts his sister as a young East German crossing the Berlin Wall in search of career opportunities, drifting from job to job on the fringes of her new home. Hailed as a breakthrough, Kluge adapts the style and concerns of the French New Wave for a powerful and poetic critique of West German life. Subtitled. More at goethe.de Digital Projection
1966, b&w, 1 hour 30 minutes, West Germany