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A Free Woman

1972 · 100 min

A quiet, sobering character study that feels like watching someone slowly lose ground in a world built against her.

Directed by
Volker Schlöndorff
Genres
Drama
Starring
Margarethe von Trotta, Friedhelm Ptok, Martin Lüttge
Overview
A divorced thirtysomething woman fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.

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Directed by
Volker Schlöndorff
Genres
Drama
Starring
Margarethe von Trotta, Friedhelm Ptok, Martin Lüttge
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • gender
  • isolation
  • family
  • freedom
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Volker Schlöndorff
Written by
Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff
Starring
Margarethe von Trotta, Friedhelm Ptok, Martin Lüttge, Ruth Hellberg, Georg Marischka, Walter Sedlmayr, Ute Ellin, Wilhelm Grasshoff
Music
Stanley Myers
Cinematography
Sven Nykvist
Runtime
100 min
Country
Germany
Languages
English, German, Italian

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