Affengeil

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Affengeil
Affengeil film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Screenplay byEva Ebner
Lotti Huber
Rosa von Praunheim
Produced byRosa von Praunheim
Starring Lotti Huber
Rosa von Praunheim
Helga Sloop
Gertrud Mischwitky
CinematographyKlaus Janschewsky
Mike Kuchar
Edited byMike Shephard
Music byMarran Gosov
Thomas Marquard
Production
company
Exportfilm Bischoff
Distributed byFirst Run Features
Release date
  • 27 October 1990 (1990-10-27)
Running time
87 minutes
Country West Germany
LanguageGerman

Affengeil (English title: Life is Like a Cucumber) is a 1990 German semi-documentarian film by Rosa von Praunheim. The film was shown at the 1991 Toronto International Film Festival and 1992 at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, among others. [1] [2]

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Plot

Film about the life of Lotti Huber, who was discovered by Rosa von Praunheim for the big stage when she was almost 70 years old. The multi-talented artist tells a moving story about catastrophes and successes that she has experienced.

Reception

"Lotti is an ingenious grotesque and a consummate performer." (The Motion Picture Guide, 1993) The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "Praunheim's fictional documentaries or documentary fictions, however one may categorize the works of the auteur filmmaker, are characterized on the one hand by an amazingly self-deprecating sincerity and on the other hand by a deeply affectionate description of the people in his worlds. [...] Legendary are his portraits of the maternal muse Lotti Huber. He erected monuments to the extravagant actress, dancer and diseuse of the Berlin underground [...]." [3]

Notes

  1. ↑ "LIFE IS LIKE A CUCUMBER". Mubi. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  2. ↑ Murray, Images in the Dark, p. 109
  3. ↑ Dannenberg, Pascale Anja (24 November 2012). "Falsch, aber echt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved 2022-04-29.

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