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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303168685 Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 630316868X Label: New Yorker Video Manufacturer: New Yorker Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Yorker Video Release Date: November 11, 1998 Running Time: 106 minutes Sales Rank: 10384 Studio: New Yorker Video Theatrical Release Date: 1980
Rating: - Unforgettable
In the early 1980's I lived for art-house films. "Marianne & Juliane" nearly cured me of that: My knees were knocking trying to leave the showing. No other film (for me) better portrays the love/hate bond between siblings or the experience of well-minded individuals slamming up against extablished politcal structures. What I only learned recently from trolling the internet, is that the film is based on real-life sisters and the events that transpired in their lives. The story is a series of horrors that von Troota underplays at each step. No other director could have, or would have made this ... Read More
Rating: - Marianne and Juliane
This is one of the best films I have ever seen, and I don't say that lightly. Images from this film haunt my sleep even now, and it is a week since I've seen it. That is the kind of impact that director Margarethe von Trotta must have been going for -- she wanted her audience to feel this film viscerally, which was exactly what her protagonists, the Baader-Meinhof group, were also going for -- one should generally feel a firebombing quite viscerally. Von Trotta succeeds. This is the story of two West German sisters during the politcally turbulant late 60's and early 70's. One works within ... Read More
Rating: - The Baader Meinhof time revisited, with a knockout punch
I first saw this video at a writing conference at Skidmore; having been a student in Germany at the time of the events described, I have to say that the film brought back with ferocious emotional impact the ambivalent feelings of an American onlooker to the upheaval then going on in German academic and political circles. The film is one of the most gripping and involving I have ever seen. It deserves a wider public. I use it to show my German language students what the issues at stake were during the student revolt in Germany.
Rating: - two sisters on a collision course with history - wonderful!
Die Bleierne Zeit (Marianne & Juliane) is a captivating film about two sisters, very different on the surface but forever linked by a common personal and political history. Von Trotta brings German history to life with this film set in the period of the Baader-Mainhof terrorist group's reign in Germany. A suspenseful film with a bit of conspiracy and unsolved mystery thrown in.
