Marianne and Juliane (1981)
- Original title
- Die bleierne Zeit
- Directed by
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Genre
- drama film, historical film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 81 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.
How it feels
Two sisters grow up in post-war Germany and take very different paths. One becomes a journalist, the other a radical activist involved in political violence. The film follows their complicated relationship and how their choices shape their lives.
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What happens
Marianne and Juliane (German: Die bleierne Zeit; lit. "The Leaden Time" or "Leaden Times", referring to the 1950s in West Germany), also called The German Sisters in the United Kingdom, is a 1981 West German film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the true lives of Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin (1940–1977). The original German title refers to the authoritarian "Leaden Time" of the 1950s, which von Trotta suggests led to the sisters' rebelliousness, and ultimately to Gudrun's later role as a leading member of the Red Army Faction. In the film, von Trotta depicts the two sisters Juliane (Christiane) and Marianne (Gudrun) through their friendship and journey to understanding each other. Marianne and Juliane was von Trotta's third film and solidified her position as a director of the New German Cinema. Marianne and Juliane also marked the first time that von Trotta worked with Barbara Sukowa. They would go on to work on six more films together. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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