Rosa Luxemburg

Director: Margarete von Trotta
Germany, Czechoslovakia, 1986, 122 min.
With: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychinski, Otto Sander, Hannes Jaenicke, Karin Baal, Winfried Glatzeder

A poignant dramatization of the person and political struggles of Spartacist leader Rosa Luxemburg, whose passionate pursuit of justice caused her to be imprisoned throughout her life and eventually murdered. - www.filmportal.de

The film will be presented by Tatiana Braun, program curator at the Goethe-Institut Montreal for film and new media.

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Women Behind the Camera

Female Directors Make History

From January 9 to April 24, 2025 at Cinéma du Musée

While the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, are often credited with inventing cinema in 1895, it is generally forgotten that one of the first fiction films in history, La fée aux choux, was directed in 1896... by a woman, Alice Guy (1873-1968), a pioneer in more ways than one. For its 8th cycle, Ciné-histoire has chosen to highlight the exceptional work of women behind the camera with a series that combines historical cinema and the history of cinema.

Between feminist cinema and feminine cinema, this programming reveals the invisible, gives voice to whom were long been silenced, and stages social realities that the seventh art had not, or barely, represented before them. To mark the 130th anniversary of cinema, we present 6 women, 6 production countries, 6 experiences of history that are urgent to rediscover.