Heller Wahn
(1983)
Regisseur:
Margarethe von TrottaSchauspieler:
Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Christine Fersen, Franz Buchrieser, Wladimir Yordanoff, Agnes Fink, Felix Moeller, Jochen Striebeck, Helga Ballhaus, Therese Affolter, Werner Eichhorn, Peter Aust, Carla Egerer, Irene Clarin, Felix von ManteuffelEine labile junge Frau (Hanna Schygulla) gewinnt in der Freundschaft mit einer Lehrerin neues Selbstbewußtsein, was ihren Mann, der sie mit seiner Fürsorge entmündigte, in eine schwere Krise stürzt. Eine Geschichte über verborgene Machtverhältnisse in der geschlechtlichen Partnerschaft, die bei zunehmender Befreiung der Frau in Irritation und Aggression auf seiten des Mannes sichtbar werden.
Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.
Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.
