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Germany 1999 / 35 mm / Color / 104 min. | |||
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Rita is 28 years old. After spending 10 years with a West German terrorist group, she has become disillusioned by their violent methods and she no longer has any faith in their leader, Andi. She decides to close this chapter in her life and she crosses over into East Germany where she hopes to submerge herself in the real life of the working class. In exchange for information the Stasi, the East German secret police, have agreed to help her acquire a new identity (legend in Stasi-speak) deep in the heart of the country. Rita wants to fit in but she can't help but seem different and she attracts the attention, and affections, of a young woman worker, Tatjana, who longs for the West as much as Rita wants to disown it. Then, one day, she is recognized by someone who has seen her face on West German TV. Rita immediately goes underground. She has an obligation to her benefactors not to reveal the connection between the terrorists and the Stasi. She adopts another name in another city, this time careful to pass as an East German. She meets a young scientist who wants to marry her and move to the Soviet Union. Rita is sorely tempted but can he handle the truth of her past? Time passes; it's 1989 and the Berlin Wall will soon collapse. The Stasi can no longer protect her. For Rita it's time to find a new legend... |
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| Script: Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Volker Schl�ndorff. Phot.: Andreas H�fer. Ed.: Peter Przygodda. Cast: Bibiana Beglau, Martin Wuttke, Nadja Uhl, Harald Schrott, Alexander Beyer, Jenny Schily, Mario Irrek, Franca Kastein. Prod.: Arthur Hofer, Emmo Lempest,Babelsberg Film, August-Bebel-Str. 26-53, 14482 Potsdam (Allemagne), t�l.: (0331) 721 21 01, fax: (0331) 721 21 03. Sales: Bavaria Film International, Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig (Allemagne), t�l.: (089) 64 99 26 86, fax: (089) 64 99 37 20, e-mail: [email protected]. | |||
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Volker Schl�ndorff One of the major directors of the New German Cinema of the '60s and '70s, Volker Schl�ndorff was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1939 and educated at the Sorbonne and l'IDHEC in Paris. His debut feature, YOUNG T�RLESS, won the critics' prize in Cannes in 1966 but it wasn't until THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM (1975, co-directed with his wife, Margarethe von Trotta) that he made his breakthrough at the German box office. Four years later he confirmed his standing in the front ranks of international cinema with THE TIN DRUM, which won the Palme d'or in Cannes and the Oscar for best foreign film. Among his other features: THE SUDDEN WEALTH OF THE POOR PEOPLE OF KOMBACH (1970), COUP DE GR�CE (1976), SWANN IN LOVE (1983), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1985), THE HANDMAID'S TALE (1990), THE OGRE (1996) and PALMETTO (1998). |