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BERLIN TEGEL — REALITY
BERLIN TEGEL — REALITY PLEASE
She, a woman of exquisite beauty, of classical dignity and harmonious Raphaelesque proportions, a woman, created like no other to be Medea, Madonna, Beatrice, Iphigenia, Aspasia, decided one sunny winter day to leave La Rotonda... She purchased a ticket of no return to Berlin-Tegel. She wanted to forget her past, or rather to abandon it like a condemned house. She wanted to concentrate all her energies on one thing, something all her own. To follow her own destiny at last was her only desire. Berlin, a city in which she was a complete stranger, seemed just the place to indulge her passion undisturbed. Her passion was alcohol, she lived to drink and drank to live, the life of a drunkard. Her resolve to live out a narcissistic, pessimistic cult of solitude strengthened during her flight until it reached the level at which it could be lived.
The time was ripe to put her plans into action.

Een vrouw komt naar Berlijn om ten volle haar passie uit te leven: alcohol. Ze onderneemt een ronde van de bars in Berlijn, ‘underground’ stad bij uitstek. Ontmoet er een dakloze, punk lesbiennes, Nina Hagen... Ze zal tot het uiterste gaan in haar narcistische en existentiële zoektocht. Flamboyant fresco van een provocerende filmmaakster

Une femme vient à Berlin vivre à fond sa passion : l’alcool. Elle entreprend la tournée des bars dans cette ville très

A woman comes to Berlin to live the passion of her life: alcohol. She undertakes a tour of the city bars with its “underground” culture. She comes across a homeless woman, punk lesbians, Nina Hagen...She will go to the limits in her narcistic and exisential pursuit. A flamboyant fresco from a provocative film maker.

Dorian Gray

Our organization will create a human being
whom we can shape and manipulate according to our needs.
Dorian Gray: young, rich and handsome. We will make him, seduce him and break him.

Frau Dr. Mabuse, boss of an international media empire,
has devised an unscrupulous plan for further expansion.

From the panoramic, historical revue of the many faces of social prejudice and ostracism, Ottinger turns her attention to the mechanism of exclusion invested with the necessary power to make or break people. Frau Dr. Mabuse, whose illustrious precursor is Fritz Lang's psychopathic, counterfeiting boss of the underworld, derives her power from the fabrication of reality based on the seduction of images and words. Her perfect object and victim is the Bauhaus-dandy Dorian, whose relation to Oscar Wilde's prototype is as marginal as his relation to power. The fairy-tale framework of Ottinger's feature compositions asserts itself strongly in this film as Dorian replaces the evil tycoon and becomes king of the media conglomerate.