Director: Margarethe von Trotta, 107 minutes, 1981
We are happy to invite you to the next installment of the ArtHouse Cinema program on Tuesday, the 7th of July. This time we will screen the film called
Die bleierne Zeit (Marianne and Juliane) directed by
Margarethe von Trotta.
West Germany, in the 1970s: Juliane meets her sister Marianne, who has been living underground due to a conviction for a terrorist arson attack. The two are close to one another, but increasingly do not see eye to eye. Not long afterwards, Marianne is arrested; Juliane’s visits to her mostly end acrimoniously. In 1977 Marianne dies in a prison cell; Juliane refuses to believe the official version of events, which claims her sister committed suicide. She wants to expose the truth. Filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta took her inspiration for Die bleierne Zeit from the life of RAF terrorist Gudrun Ensslin and her sister Christiane.
ArtHouse Cinema
ArtHouse Cinema is the regular film program of the Goethe-Institut. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month we screen independent movies, avant-garde movies, retrospectives, experimental films or documentary films from Europe and Indonesia – anything but the mainstream.
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