"All-Round Reduced Personality"
1977
Directed by Helke Sander

Winner of the Interfilm Award Recommendation for Forum of New Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival (1978).  This film is a key work of the new German cinema, in which Helke Sander constructs a justly celebrated portrait of Edda, a freelance photojournalist, and the divided city of Berlin. The film is a wryly funny but serious commentary on contemporary life, and a poignant look at a single woman trying to make a go of it. Sander, a leading figure of the German women's movement, is the film's writer, director and star, who bravely portrays Edda as an individual straddling multiple worlds--work, womanhood, motherhood, East, West, capitalism and socialism. Also known under the British-release title Redupers. German with English subtitles.  98 minutes.