All My Tumbler Girls Or All About Women Who Dare To...

Deutschland, 2009
Length
82 minutes
Director
Lothar Lambert
Cast
  • Marion Antoniadis
  • Anne-Marie Chatelier
  • Ilona Fath
  • Claudia Jakobshagen
  • Isolde Josipovici
  • Hilka Neuhof
  • Erika Rabau
  • Karin Reum-Lahrem
  • Sylvia Schmid
  • Irene Schweitzer
  • Evelyn Sommerhoff
  • Arnfried Binhold
  • Alexander K.
  • Jens Richter
  • Konrad Tidow

Content

In his film, Lothar Lambert has chosen to portray eleven women over forty in Berlin, interweaving accounts of their experiences, their current lives and their expectations for the future. The line-up includes a number of well-known Berliners such as Irene Schweitzer, who runs the shop “Kaufhaus Schrill” in Bleibtreustrasse, photographer Erika Rabau and painter Evelyn Sommerhoff. The women talk about their chaotic family backgrounds, dramatic twists and turns, courageous decisions, failed relationships, breakdowns and new beginnings, as well as the art of gritting your teeth in spite of all of life’s blows. In no uncertain terms the women tell the filmmaker how they came to be the people they are; they also chat unabashedly about their sexual antics and reflect en passant on the social climate in Germany. Although only one or two of the protagonists are known to each other, they all share their acquaintance with Lothar Lambert, whom they know either socially or...

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Credits

Production company
Lola-Films
Original title
Alle meine Stehaufmädchen – Von Frauen, die sich was Trauen