Ingmar Bergman’ın en sevdiği filmler arasında yer alan Alman Kızkardeşler, farklı biçimlerde siyasi mücadele veren kardeşler arasındaki ilişkiyi merceğe alıyor. Baader-Meinhof üyesi Gudrun Ensslin ile kız kardeşi Christine’den ilham alan film, 1981 yılında Venedik’te Altın Aslan kazandı.

Radicalism is not only an anarchic bank heist—for Margarethe von Trotta, it is hospitality and intimacy too. Inspired by a feminist movement that set up antiauthoritarian childcare centers in West Germany, the director forges a remarkable drama from leftist struggle and unlikely solidarity.

Dreams are realized and promises are broken in this monumental film. Marrying the swooning heights of melodrama to a chronicle of European socialism, Margarethe von Trotta’s decades-spanning epic speaks volumes about the families, friends, and lovers who were torn apart by a divided Germany.