Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit – REDUPERS
Feature Film / Ger 1977 / 16 and 35 mm / b/w
95 min / 4:3 / mono

Lenin, the man so much discussed by West German left-wingers during the sixties and seventies, stated that under Communism every housewife must learn to conduct state affairs. This film asks the question: when should she do so during the course of her fragmented and varied working day? The main character is no housewife but instead a freelance photographer with a child, a boyfriend and artistic ambitions; that is to say, she works sixteen hour per day. The film ridicules the socialist ideal of the allround developed personality and, with a certain amount of humour, goes some way to answering the question “Why do Women so rarely achieve anything?”