Helga Reidemeister's Von wegen 'Schicksal' (Is This Fate?) screens this Saturday, September 10, as part of Open City Documentary Festival in London. Starting September 16, it will be available to stream on Another Screen along with Reidemeister's Der gekaufte Traum and Cristina Perincioli's Für Frauen. 1. Kapitel.Von wegen 'Schicksal' (Is This Fate?) (1979).Helga Reidemeister’s Von wegen ‘Schicksal’ (Is this Fate?) (1979) begins in a space of near total darkness. At the center of the frame is 48-year-old Irene Rakowitz, whose tumultuous family life at the social housing estate Märkisches Viertel constitutes the heart of this unblinking documentary. Divorced, disabled, and surviving on benefits, Irene lived with her two youngest children in a small apartment five floors above her ex-husband Richard’s. Her two older daughters had left—or rather fled—the claustrophobic environment. Facing a row of monitors, Rakowitz gazes upon playbacks of an interview between Reidemeister and her daughters...
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