RED LOVE
(ROTE LIEBE)
dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1982
80 minutes. Germany.
In German with English subtitles.

FRIDAY, JUNE 2 - 10 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 23 - MIDNIGHT

In this self-proclaimed attack on good taste, Rosa von Praunheim smashes a lavishly produced adaptation of Soviet diplomat Alexandra Kollontai’s A Great Love together with a crudely shot-on-video interview with radical sex activist Helga Goetz, the ex-housewife mother of seven who’d claimed to have had sex with over 200 partners after discovering the free love movement in the 60s. Borne out of Praunheim’s disappointment with the original, more traditional cut of his adaptation of Kollontai’s novella, RED LOVE becomes something more than the sum of its two parts: a singular, punk tribute to two revolutionary women.