Film
The German sisters

With introduction by Dora Osborne, Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews

Sun, 25.11.2018
3:00 PM - 17:00 Filmhouse Edinburgh

Margarethe von Trotta / Germany 1981 / 106m / 16A

Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander

Two sisters take diverging paths to emancipation in West Germany. Juliane is a feminist journalist, arguing for abortion rights; Marianne is a terrorist revolutionary in a Baader-Meinhof type group. As Marianne’s political activism begins to take a personal cost, Juliane is stricken between her politics and her need to protect her sister and her family. But when Marianne is imprisoned, Juliane is forced to confront the realities of the harsh power of the state.