Margarethe von Trotta

Johannes Schneider Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net
Thu Apr 5 11:30:53 PDT 2001



> What was the name of that movie on Baader-Meinhof directed by Christa ?.
The
> director of the film biopic on Rosa Luxemburg?

The director's name is Margarethe von Trotta.

There are two 'Baader-Meinhof movies' directed by her: Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum [The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum] (1975) Die Bleierne Zeit [The German Sisters or Marianne and Juliane] (1981)

These are great movies. You can learn more from these about the seventies in Germany than from reading a bunch of books.

The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages) is not so much a 'Baader-Meinhof movie', since I have not seen it here is the account from:

http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/archives/trotta.html

"The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages)(1977) With The Second Awakening of Christa Klages, her solo directing debut, Margarethe von Trotta "burst onto the scene almost full-blown, like Athena. . . becoming the world's leading feminist filmmaker, a title she is still proud to claim" (Ally Acker). Based on an actual incident involving a Munich kindergarten teacher, Christa Klages features Tina Engel, in the title role, as a young woman who resorts to bank robbery in order to keep her alternative day care open. The desperate act leaves her pursued not only by the police but, mysteriously, by a young bank teller who was her hostage during the caper, and she is forced to flee the country. " I assume such a film did not fit into the 'Bleierne Zeit', so it disapeared in the archives.

Biography: http://web.uvic.ca/german/439/trotta_bio.html

Johannes



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