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]
| Affengeil | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Rosa von Praunheim |
| Screenplay by | Eva Ebner Lotti Huber Rosa von Praunheim |
| Produced by | Rosa von Praunheim |
| Starring | Lotti Huber Rosa von Praunheim Helga Sloop Gertrud Mischwitky |
| Cinematography | Klaus Janschewsky Mike Kuchar |
| Edited by | Mike Shephard |
| Music by | Marran Gosov Thomas Marquard |
Production company | Exportfilm Bischoff |
| Distributed by | First Run Features |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German |
Plot
editFilm 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
edit"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
edit- ^ "LIFE IS LIKE A CUCUMBER". Mubi. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
- ^ Murray, Images in the Dark, p. 109
- ^ Dannenberg, Pascale Anja (24 November 2012). "Falsch, aber echt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
References
edit- Murray, Raymond. Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Guide. TLA Publications, 1994, ISBN 1880707012