Sisters are resisters as director Margarethe von Trotta puts revolutionary women at the heart of New German Cinema. Armed revolutionary Marianne (based on the Red Army Faction’s leader Gudrun Ensslin) argues the cause with her sister Juliane, a feminist activist and journalist.
Die bleierne Zeit (1981)
Revolutionary Marianne argues her cause with her activist and journalist sister.
- 1981 Federal Republic of Germany
- Directed by
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Produced by
- Eberhard Junkersdorf
- Written by
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Featuring
- Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler
- Running time
- 107 minutes