(Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1980; BFI, Blu-ray, 15)
The German feminist film-maker Helma Sanders-Brahms, who died last year at the age of 73, was a key figure in the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s and 80s alongside such figures as Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, also born during or shortly after the second world war and dealing with similar issues raised by the Nazi era and its aftermath. Her best-known, most widely exhibited picture, is the harrowing, semi-autobiographical Germany, Pale Mother, the title taken from a poem written by Bertolt Brecht in 1933, the year he went into exile, of which the key lines are: “O Germany pale mother / How you sit defiled / Among the peoples!”
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The German feminist film-maker Helma Sanders-Brahms, who died last year at the age of 73, was a key figure in the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s and 80s alongside such figures as Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, also born during or shortly after the second world war and dealing with similar issues raised by the Nazi era and its aftermath. Her best-known, most widely exhibited picture, is the harrowing, semi-autobiographical Germany, Pale Mother, the title taken from a poem written by Bertolt Brecht in 1933, the year he went into exile, of which the key lines are: “O Germany pale mother / How you sit defiled / Among the peoples!”
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- 7/12/2015
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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