Ulrike's Brain
Ulrike's Brain | |
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Directed by | Bruce LaBruce |
Written by | Bruce LaBruce |
Starring | Susanne Sachsse |
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Running time | 55 minutes |
Countries | Germany Canada |
Language | English |
Ulrike's Brain is a 2017 German-Canadian drama film directed by Bruce LaBruce. It was screened in the Forum section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]
The film, described by LaBruce in advance interviews as a sequel of sorts to his early film The Raspberry Reich,[2] stars Susanne Sachsse as Julia Feifer, an academic who possesses and can communicate with the brain of German Red Army Faction radical Ulrike Meinhof.[1] She is seeking to transplant the brain into a new body so that she can resurrect Meinhof and revive her goal of socialist and feminist revolution, but her plans are complicated when her archrival Detlev Schlesinger, an extreme right-wing ideologue, arrives with identical plans for the surviving brain of German neo-Nazi leader Michael Kühnen.[1]
The film, a spoof of the 1960s B-movie subgenre of mad scientists preserving human brains, is thematically linked with LaBruce's feature film The Misandrists, which premiered at Berlin's Panorama program in the same week.[3] Although both films were made in Germany, Ulrike's Brain received some production funding from the Canada Council for the Arts while The Misandrists did not.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Festival de Berlin 2017 : dix talents sous les projecteurs". Telerama.fr, February 9, 2017.
- ^ "Bruce LaBruce, Queer Filmmaker, Gets His Own Retrospective At NYC’s MoMA". Huffington Post, April 26, 2015.
- ^ "Außerirdische, Lost in Politics"[usurped]. Dschungel, February 9, 2017.
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