The Patriotic Woman
1979 · Movie · 121 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
The Patriot is the kind of symbolic, avant-garde, historical and cultural drama that lends itself to several viewings in order to get at the basis of what, in this case, director Alexander Kluge had in mind. Various aspects of German history are explored from several angles in a series of odd sequences. Gabi Teichert (Hannelore Hogar) is both a history teacher and a patriot. One day she goes out into the winter landscape carrying a shovel (digging for the truth?). She comes across is a dead soldier killed at the battle of Leningrad, whose symbolically disembodied knee speaks to her. Next, Gabi scans the landscape with a telescope, looking for evidence. Later, she is at a convention of the Social Democrat Party and tries to find information there. The scenes continue at different venues and with different people as this history teacher tries to piece together history.
Direction Alexander Kluge
Cast Hannelore Hoger · Alfred Edel · Wolf Hanne · Hans Heckel · Beate Holle · Kurt Jürgens · Günther Kreidel
Screenplay Alexander Kluge · Christel Buschmann · Willi Segler
Cinematography Guenter Hoermann · Werner Lüring · Thomas Mauch · Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Original title Die Patriotin
6.7
56 votes (FilmAffinity)
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