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Film Info

Germany 2024 | 111 min. Director: Katharina Pethke
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PLUTO FILM
Schliemannstrasse 5
10437 Berlin Phone +49 30 21918220 https://www.plutofilm.de

Production Company

FÜNFERFILM UG
Otzenstr. 12
22769 Hamburg http://www.fuenferfilm.de

Categories

Documentary

Reproduction

Synopsis

The ensemble of buildings that makes up the maternity clinic and art school in Hamburg where the director taught is the starting point for this sober interrogation of how motherhood and career can be combined based on three generations of German women.


How much does a place reveal about its history? How much can forbears and their descendants know about one another? And how much continuity is contained within progress? When Katharina Pethke became a professor at Hamburg’s University of Fine Arts, it set in motion a process of reflection and research. Before, she had studied there, and so too had her mother and grandmother. Each of the women believed they were breaking new ground and yet, consciously or unconsciously, through stance or in protest, continued to carry on a legacy. This essay film examines the three generations caught between social determination and artistic ambition, self-will and motherhood, production and reproduction. The university building and its sole sculpture by a woman artist purchased by urban planner Fritz Schumacher, “Frauenschicksal” (Women’s Fate), become a mirror as well as showcase for enduring ambivalences. A virtuosic and astute work from an established filmmaker, Reproduktion explores questions of feminine and artistic identity through the lens of Pethke’s personal experience, interweaving her family biography with the architectural history of the art and media campus. [74 BERLINALE – Forum]

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2024
74 BERLINALE – Forum
Crossing Europe FF Linz
32 FILMFEST HAMBURG

World Sales

PLUTO FILM
Schliemannstrasse 5
10437 Berlin Phone +49 30 21918220 https://www.plutofilm.de

Production Company

FÜNFERFILM UG
Otzenstr. 12
22769 Hamburg http://www.fuenferfilm.de

Cast & Crew

Katharina Pethke
 Christoph Rohrscheidt
 Simon Quack
 Timo Selengia

Categories

Documentary
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