Director: Claudia von Alemann
Cast: Rebecca Pauly, Denise Péron, Jean Badin, Sarah Stern, Maurice Garden,
Plot: The young historian Elisabeth is traveling to Lyon on her own in order to explore the city tracing the life of Flora Tristan. Tristan, whose diary Elisabeth is carrying, was a 19th century socialist and feminist who influenced many contemporary activists and intellectuals yet fell into oblivion herself. Elisabeth tries to put together the clues she can find in Lyon wanting to reconstruct Tristan's life in the most sensual way.
The 5th Hong Kong International Film Festival, part eight
Part eight of my review of what I saw at the Fifth Hong Kong International Film Festival covers German films groaning under the weight of history and the pressing need to construct an identity free of the […]