Frauenschicksale (1952)

Directed by

Slatan Dudow

Genre

drama film

Country

German Democratic Republic, Germany

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This East German film contrasts the lives of women in East and West Berlin after World War II. It shows women in the East as politically active and cooperative, while women in the West are preoccupied with looks and money.

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What happens

Destinies of Women (German: Frauenschicksale) is an East German film. It was released in 1952, and sold more than 5,100,000 tickets. It was produced as a propaganda film which compared the lives of women in the two sides of divided Germany. The women in East Berlin were politically aware and organized while those in West Berlin were vain and materialistic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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