In meiner kleinen Welt bekam ich nach diesem Film richtig Lust auf Blutiger Freitag, ohne den zu kennen.
The epilogue, featuring a newspaper editor's near-fascist rant about defending 'freedom of speech' and 'diversity of opinions' begs the question: is invading into people's private lives and robbing them of their honour 'freedom of speech'? A brilliant film everyone should see.
A West Germany every bit as police state and surveillance heavy as East Germany. The police invade your private life on the pretext of stopping anarchy or communism (instead of the East's anarchy and capitalism), and the press destroys you individually by using freedom of press (instead of the individual you being destroyed by the lack thereof). This is a very dry and unsubtle satire. --PolarisDiB
The disturbing story of a young woman who is wrongly accused of helping a terrorist and who then becomes a target of vicious attacks by the gutter press marked the directorial debut of von Trotta. This intelligent and menacing film was co-directed by her then-husband Schlondorff and is an angry denunciation of the tactics used by a news-hungry press. Winkler is excellent as the shy young woman whose life is ruined...
