BERLIN, Feb 19 (Reuters) – For German director Margarethe von Trotta, “Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert,” chronicling six years of the titular Austrian poet’s life, is a part of a dialogue with the previous about how life for girls has modified and the way a lot they’ve achieved.
“Bachmann’s seek for liberty and freedom – she stated ‘I can’t be subjugated by males’ – what she was looking for, we’ve achieved now,” stated von Trotta of the poet and writer, who rose to prominence within the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties.
“She arrives within the desert very weak … and in the long run she says it is her salvation, I am liberated,” stated von Trotta.
The movie is in keeping with von Trotta’s earlier work, which focuses on robust feminine historic figures similar to thinker Hannah Arendt and activist Rosa Luxemburg, cementing her standing as one of many world’s prime feminist film-makers.
Born in Berlin, she started working as an actor within the late Nineteen Sixties earlier than transferring into directing, making her first solo debut in 1977.
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“Ingeborg Bachmann”, which premiered on Sunday on the Berlin Movie Competition, the place it’s in competitors for the highest prize, tells the tumultuous real-life relationship between Bachmann, splendidly embodied by actor Vicky Krieps, and Swiss playwright Max Frisch, portrayed by Ronald Zehrfeld.
A love story advised in non-chronological order, the movie flashes between their first assembly in Paris to Bachmann’s retreat to the desert in Egypt after their break-up, making a portrait of a lady who needs intimacy however finds relationship expectations of the time stifling.
Reporting by Miranda Murray; Enhancing by David Holmes
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