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TITLE Anita (1987)

ALT__TITLE 1. Tanze des Lasters 2. Dances of Vice

DISABILITY Mental

COUNTRY Germany

LENGTH 89

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR Rosa von Praunheim

CAST Ina Blum

Mikael Honesseau

Lotti Huber

Hannelene Limpach

Friedrich Steinhauer

NOTES Using a mix of an expressionist style in colour and a

documentary style in B/W. this film examines a woman who

takes on the personality of an infamous woman from the

1920s. Set in Berlin in the late 1980s the woman is sent to a

mental hospital where the personality of Anita Berber, a nude

dancer and drug addict, completely takes over.

 


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