Ticket of No Return

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Ulrike Ottinger Retrospective

Cinematographer: Ulrike Ottinger

Director: Ulrike Ottinger

Writer: Ulrike Ottinger

Year: 1979

Country: West Germany

Time: 108

Date and place:

2022.11.13, 14:00CSW - Kino Centrum

One winter’s day, the nameless She, an elegant woman of extraordinary beauty, decides to change her life. In order to indulge in the greatest of her passions, she rejects the past and sets off for Berlin to make her plans come true. Visiting tourist sites from an advertising brochure handed to her on the plane by a kind stewardess, she embarks on a self-destructive pilgrimage through a succession of places where alcohol is served. She stops at every bar or a beer stand she encounters, indulging her addiction in the company of random strangers she meets. She thus begins her dream life as an alcoholic, gradually becoming more and more like the heroine who is her on-screen alter ego.

Ulrike Ottinger Retrospective