Finally seeing films on the big screen again and on an idyllic park island. This is now possible at the Festival of German Film in Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Not only are large film productions shown here, but also low-budget films or television productions that you want more attention.
Kunscht! has selected three films that will be released in theaters or soon to have their television premiere. They have been nominated for prizes and tell of strong women who have to fight their way through the early 20th century and today.
Monte Verità – The intoxication of freedom
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Hanna Leitner (Maresi Riegner) running on a rock on Monte Verità.
© tellfilm, Grischa Schmitz, DCM
“Monte Verità” takes us to Lake Maggiore, to the world-famous Verità mountain, where Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) thought about his novel “Siddhartha”. It is a magical place where dropouts meet who are looking for meaning. The film is about a courageous woman who cannot breathe in her marriage, suffers from asthma and finds herself on Monte Verità.
Ivie like Ivie
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Haley Louise Jones und Lorna Ishema (re) in „Ivie wie Ivie”
(c) Weydemann Bros. Constanze Schmitt David Schmitt
“Ivie wie Ivie” tells of a young woman who grew up in Leipzig and who nevertheless struggles with prejudices every day. Your mother is German. Her father is from Senegal and disappeared before she was born.
Crime scene: video evidence
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Ursina Lardi in the crime scene: “Video evidence”
Press office
©SWR/Benoit Linder
“The most sensual ‘crime scene’ of all time. ‘Basic Instinct’ in Stuttgart ”. For example, the Festival of German Film is promoting the SWR Tatort “Videobeweis”, which will run in Das Erste at the beginning of 2022 and will be shown in advance at the festival. The focus here is on a woman around 50 who is not so easy to see through. What means does it use to achieve its goals? Or is she the victim of male fantasies?
