Cornelia Froboess and Christian Doermer are looking for Theodor Fontane in Berlin today. A small plot in loosely linked scenes holds the whole thing together. Cornelia Froboess recites poems and prose texts by the Brandenburg poet set to music.
Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation.
15-year-old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age.
Cornélio, an aged man and famous baritone, marries the young Angelica, who plans with her ex-boyfriend Bruno, to kill the husband with contaminated oysters, but she ends up the one who gets sick.