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6:30 PM
Anita: Dances of Vice
Film Screening |with Introduction by Tetsuya Shibutani
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Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Hall, Tokyo
- Language Film: German with Japanese subtitles, Introduction: Japanese
- Price 1000 Yen (Pass for all screenings: 2500 Yen)
- Part of series: Rosa von Praunheim - Pioneer of Queer Cinema in Germany
West Germany, 1987, 87 min., FSK 16, German with Japanese subtitles
In 1920s Berlin, the nude dancer Anita Berber became notorious for her eccentricity and uncompromising lifestyle. In retrospect, she has come to embody the turbulent era between war, inflation, sexual liberation, and drug-induced excess. Rosa von Praunheim frames his homage to this radical cultural icon through the story of an elderly woman who is admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
The patient, played by cult actress Lotti Huber, believes herself to be Anita Berber. Her fantasies evoke the visual world of expressionist silent cinema and are brought vividly to life through the striking cinematography of Elfi Mikesch.
Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Cast: Lotti Huber, Ina Blum, Mikael Honesseau, Rosa von Praunheim, and others
Screening courtesy: Eurospace
The screening is held with an introduction by film scholar Tetsuya Shibutani.
Tetsuya Shibutani
Born in 1965, he is a Professor in the College of Humanities and Sciences at Nihon University. His research specializes in German cinema and cultures of visual representation. He has published extensively on German film, with a particular focus on the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has also translated Fassbinder’s plays "The Bremen Freedom" and "Garbage, the City and Death" into Japanese, and has created Japanese subtitles for a large number of German films.
In 1920s Berlin, the nude dancer Anita Berber became notorious for her eccentricity and uncompromising lifestyle. In retrospect, she has come to embody the turbulent era between war, inflation, sexual liberation, and drug-induced excess. Rosa von Praunheim frames his homage to this radical cultural icon through the story of an elderly woman who is admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
The patient, played by cult actress Lotti Huber, believes herself to be Anita Berber. Her fantasies evoke the visual world of expressionist silent cinema and are brought vividly to life through the striking cinematography of Elfi Mikesch.
Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Cast: Lotti Huber, Ina Blum, Mikael Honesseau, Rosa von Praunheim, and others
Screening courtesy: Eurospace
The screening is held with an introduction by film scholar Tetsuya Shibutani.
Tetsuya Shibutani
Born in 1965, he is a Professor in the College of Humanities and Sciences at Nihon University. His research specializes in German cinema and cultures of visual representation. He has published extensively on German film, with a particular focus on the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has also translated Fassbinder’s plays "The Bremen Freedom" and "Garbage, the City and Death" into Japanese, and has created Japanese subtitles for a large number of German films.
Location
Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Hall
7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo
107-0052 Japan
7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo
107-0052 Japan