Im Jahr der Schlange

For her 40th birthday, director Heide Breitel interviewed female friends of the same age about their experiences. All of them – born in 1941, in the Chinese year of the Snake – lived through war, flight, the Economic Miracle, the confinement of the 1950s and the liberation from it in the student and women's movement. The stories, which she assembled with skill, come together into a sensitive and enlightening document about the experiences, life realities and struggles of women spanning several generations. Shown is the English-subtitled 16 mm festival print. 16mm is cult – and at the Studiokino of the Kinemathek it gets its own evening. Here, rare experimental, underground and documentary films as well as other rarities from the archive are brought to the screen in their original format. The 16mm Filmclub celebrates the analogue narrow-gauge film format, which once shaped independent filmmaking and has lost none of its fascination to this day.