Affengeil

1990 West Germany film
  • 27 October 1990 (1990-10-27)
Running time
87 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Affengeil (English title: Life is Like a Cucumber) is a 1990 German semi-documentarian film by Rosa von Praunheim. The film was shown at the 1991 Toronto International Film Festival and 1992 at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, among others.[1][2]

Plot

Film about the life of Lotti Huber, who was discovered by Rosa von Praunheim for the big stage when she was almost 70 years old. The multi-talented artist tells a moving story about catastrophes and successes that she has experienced.

Reception

"Lotti is an ingenious grotesque and a consummate performer." (The Motion Picture Guide, 1993) The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "Praunheim's fictional documentaries or documentary fictions, however one may categorize the works of the auteur filmmaker, are characterized on the one hand by an amazingly self-deprecating sincerity and on the other hand by a deeply affectionate description of the people in his worlds. [...] Legendary are his portraits of the maternal muse Lotti Huber. He erected monuments to the extravagant actress, dancer and diseuse of the Berlin underground [...]."[3]

Notes

  1. ^ "LIFE IS LIKE A CUCUMBER". Mubi. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  2. ^ Murray, Images in the Dark, p. 109
  3. ^ Dannenberg, Pascale Anja (24 November 2012). "Falsch, aber echt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 2022-04-29.

References

  • Murray, Raymond. Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Guide. TLA Publications, 1994, ISBN 1880707012
  • Affengeil at IMDb