The Drifter

Film screening|Fokus: Films from Germany

Goethe-Institut Glasgow, Glasgow
Language German with English subtitles
Part of series: Fokus: Films from Germany

It was supposed to be a trilogy about women and work. It began in 2010 with ‘Eine flexible Frau’ (A Flexible Woman), followed in 2014 by ‘Top Girl’ or ‘La Déformation Professionnelle,’ but there was no third part. Director Tatjana Turanskyj passed away on 18 September 2021 and lives on in the minds, thoughts, projects and struggles of her fellow campaigners. She was a filmmaker, author, feminist and activist and had a lot to say, as is evident in her feature film debut 'A Flexible Woman': Greta M. (Mira Partecke) is 40, lives in Berlin, is unemployed, an architect, a mother and a drinker. She drifts between the job centre, gated communities, and call centres and bars - through a life that either does not provide for women like her or is trying to squeeeze them into an efficiency scheme that women like Greta do not fit into. Instead of making a deadly serious film about women's issues, wage labour and gentrification, Turanskyj has her protagonist Greta dance, drink and talk with an ease and subtle wit that is as atypical for German cinema as Tatjana Turanskyj has always been. She was co-founder of ProQuote Film (originally: ProQuote Regie), an association that has been campaigning for gender parity and diversity in film in Germany since 2014.
Directed byTatjana Turanskyj, 2010, 97 min

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