Kalender

Alice Schwarzer

Sabine Derflinger

AT / DE
2022
Documentary
136’

In contemporary documents and currently filmed material, we experience Alice Schwarzer, icon of the German women’s movement, at work and in private.

Alice Schwarzer became world famous with her book Der kleine Unterschied (The Little Difference), in which women spoke openly about their sex lives. At least as important and momentous was her campaign for the legalization of abortion in Germany. An article printed in Stern magazine titled “Wir haben abgetrieben” (We had an abortion) gave her campaign of the same name widespread attention and was an igniting spark for the impunity of abortion. The latter was taken for granted in recent decades, but is now being questioned again in some countries. The film walks between times with montages and serves informative and aesthetic aspects in equal measure in its historical claim.

Alice Schwarzer was influenced by her childhood with her grandparents in Wuppertal, her youth in France, her life with her then partner Bruno and her entry into the French women’s movement MLF. Today Alice Schwarzer lives in Cologne, in the Bergisches Land and in Paris. She writes books, has published the women’s magazine Emma since 1977, and picks up every hot potato related to power issues between the sexes. As before, the controversial woman finds herself at the center of heated discussions.

In the film, Bettina Flitner, photographer and Alice’s wife, has her say, and we also see interviews with companions such as Élisabeth Badinter, Peter Merseburger, Jenny Erpenbeck, Jasmin Tabatabai, Franziska Becker, Anne Zelensky and Sonja Hopf, as well as archive footage, including Henri Nannen, Rudolf Augstein, Margarete Mitscherlich, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre.

Alice Schwarzer screened at DOK.fest Munich 2022 and won the Grand Diagonale Award for Best Documentary at the Diagonale in Graz.

Director

Sabine Derflinger

With

Alice Schwarzer, Élisabeth Badinter, Jenny Erpenbeck, Jasmin Tabatabai, Franziska Becker, Henri Nannen, Rudolf Augstein, Margarete Mitscherlich, Simone de Beauvoir und Jean Paul Sartre

Porträt der Regisseurin Sabine Derflinger

Sabine Derflinger

Sabine Derflinger was born in the Austrian town of Wels in 1963. After studying screenwriting and dramaturgy in Vienna, she started writing, directing and producing numerous fiction and documentary films. Alongside her own feature films, she has directed Austrian and German crime series such as Tatort, Die Füchsin and other TV series, including Vorstadtweiber. Derflinger has won multiple prizes and awards for her films, including the Grimme Award in 2014.


Films by Sabine Derflinger
Die Dohnal – Frauenministerin/Feministin/Visionärin 2019 | Anna Fucking Molnar 2017 | Dämmerung über Burma 2015 | Tatort – Borowski und das Meer 2013 | Tatort – Falsch verpackt 2011 | Hotspot 2011 | Tag und Nacht 2010 | Eine von Acht 2008 | 42Plus 2007 | Schnelles Geld 2004 | Kleine Schwester 2004 | Vollgas 2001 | Die Rounder Girls 1999 | Achtung: Grenze 1996 | Geraubte Kindheit 1994
Es war einmal 1991