Bildnis einer Trinkerin

The first part of Ulrike Ottinger's legendary Berlin Trilogy, BILDNIS EINER TRINKERIN (Ticket of no Return, West Germany, 1979) is both a topography of the city and a contrasting portrait of the people who live here or are visiting, such as “Sie” (Tabea Blumenschein) – a mixture of Medea, Madonna, Beatrice, Iphigenia, and Aspasia. Following the urgent impulse to forget the past, she buys a one-way ticket to Berlin to drink herself to death on a rampage through West Berlin's pubs, hotels, casinos, and bars. Unapproachable, she encounters protagonists of the late 1970s' underground scene on her nocturnal wanderings: drinkers (including Lutze), a singer (spectacular: Nina Hagen), artists (for example, Eddie Constantine, Ginka Steinwachs, Mercedes Vostell, Wolf Vostell), and three goddesses of fate-cum-experts who accompany “Sie” on her odyssey. A melodrama. (Milena Gregor)

At Klick Kino, Windscheidstr. 19, Berlin-Charlottenburg