Abschied von Gestern & Gelegenheitsarbeit (Kluge) (2DVD)

Yesterday Girl is about Anita G., a young girl, whose parents are picked up one morning during the time of the Third Reich. She comes from the East and now freezes her way through the West.
In Parttime Work of a Domestic Slave, Roswitha Bronski is a married mother of three at the centre of the protest movement. She finds her plans for social change are easier to realize outside family life.
Two films by Alexander Kluge, both starring his sister Alexandra Kluge. Pictures, stories, quotes, documents and scenes which mark the beginning of the New German Cinema and reflect the West German society of the 60s and early 70s.

The 2DVD edition also offers texts and short films by Alexander Kluge related to the two feature films.





DVD 1
Abschied von gestern / Yesterday Girl, 84'
directed and written by: Alexander Kluge, based on his story "Anita G."
cinematography by: Edgar Reitz
edited by: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
cast: Alexandra Kluge, Günter Mack, Eva Maria Meineke, Hans Korte, Ursula Dirichs, Alfred Edel
Kairos-Film, Munich, West Germany 1966
Nachricht vom Filmfestival in Venedig (1966), 1'
Brutalität in Stein (1961), 11'
Ein Liebesversuch (1998), 15'
An Vertov (1998), 1'

8page booklet with texts by Alexander Kluge

Short stories "Anita G." und "An Experiment in Love" as ROM features

DVD 2
Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin / Part-Time Work of a Female Slave, 87'
directed and written by: Alexander Kluge
cinematography by: Thomas Mauch
edited by: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
cast: Alexandra Kluge, Bion Steinborn, Sylvia Gartmann, Traugott Buhre, Ursula Dirichs, Alfred Edel
Produced by: Kairos-Film, Munich, West Germany 1973
Lehrer im Wandel (1963), 11'
Sam remembers Papa Kong (2006), 1'

Text "Roswitha's Programme" as ROM feature

DVD edited by: Filmmuseum München and Goethe-Institut, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation

4:3 (PAL) / 1.37:1/ Dolby Digital 2.0 / language: German / subtitles: English, French, Russian, Spanish, Portugese, Chinese