Because a day goes by too quickly, some companies are turning International Women’s Day (which is celebrated annually on March 8th) into International Women’s Month. This also applies to Deutsche Bahn, which recently wanted to send a train with a completely female crew onto the rails with a “Female ICE” – but that didn’t work because of the GDL strike. Promoting women works better in Munich cinemas, where women are the focus even without a pre-proclaimed themed month.
The fabulous Birgit Minichmayr, for example, who, as a provincial police officer in the hit film “Andrea Gets a Divorce” (which has already been seen by more than 100,000 people in Austria), has had enough of her primitive husband. She wants a divorce and has herself transferred to the Lower Austrian metropolis of St. Pölten. Before that, Andrea drives her husband to death (accidentally, after all) and commits a hit-and-run (not quite so accidentally). It’s a film that tells of a tragedy, but is also incredibly funny. Which again goes to the credit of a man: Josef Hader wrote and directed this bitterly evil cinematic gem, and he also plays the male lead. His film will be released in German cinemas at the beginning of April, and Hader is currently on tour through Bavaria: On Saturday, March 16th, he will come to Munich and attend the preview events Rio Film Palace, City and Leopold cinema. Unfortunately, his leading actress cannot accompany him; she will be on stage at Vienna’s Burgtheater this weekend.
For a long time, the promotion of women was a foreign concept in Hollywood; men were always in charge behind the cameras. With one exception: The American Dorothy Arzner was the only woman in the dream factory who worked as a director at the beginning of the so-called golden years. Between 1927 and 1943 she made almost 20 feature films with top female stars such as Clara Bow, Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford. Later she was almost forgotten. The movie museum is dedicating a retrospective to her, with musical films, melodramas and romances from until June Dorothy Arzner to see.
At the Oscars in Los Angeles, the German candidate came away empty-handed in the “Best International Film” category, but “The Teacher’s Room” is of course still worth seeing. Also because of the great leading actress: Leonie Benesch plays a teacher who wants to do everything right and maneuvers herself further and further into the sidelines. You can see it again on March 20th New Rottmann see, as part of the series that takes place every third Wednesday of the month “The excellent film”.
The organizers of a film screening followed by a panel discussion also refer to International Women’s Month: Im America House will be the Israeli on Monday, March 18th Documentary “#Nova” shown, which addresses the Hamas attack on the Supernova music festival on October 7, 2023. There was physical, psychological and sexual violence there, especially against girls and women. This is almost unbearable, the organizers warn in advance that the scenes shown can “sometimes appear disturbing”. But director Dan Pe’er wants to give the victims a voice with his film, using cell phone videos, phone calls or text messages.