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Tobias Kniebe
No matter how you twist and turn it, you can never quite get on the trail of this woman. What you have to admit to yourself today, on your eightieth birthday. At first glance, the situation looks simple: in 1967, May Spils was the first female to direct a feature film in the not-so-young Federal Republic of Germany. Before that there was Leni Riefenstahl, who had somehow survived her alliance with Hitler, but at that time was only allowed to photograph the Nuba in Africa. May Spils, on the other hand, shot the film “To the point, sweetheart” in Schwabing and immediately landed such a sensational success that she never had to work again afterwards. Though she still did occasionally.