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Ulrike's Brain
- Runtime:
- 55 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2017
- Country:
- Germany/Canada
- Director:
- Cast:
- Susanne Sachsse
- Production Company:
- Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion
- Berlinale Section:
- Forum
- Berlinale Category:
- Feature Film
Referencing sixties B-movies like They Saved Hitler’s Brain and The Brain That Would Not Die, Ulrike’s Brain finds Doctor Julia Feifer (Susanne Sachsse) arriving at an academic conference with an organ box. Inside the box: the brain of Ulrike Meinhof, which was saved by the authorities along with the brains of the three other leaders of the RAF after their deaths in Stammheim prison. Doctor Feifer can communicate telepathically with Ulrike’s brain, which is directing her to lead a new feminist revolution. To that end, she is searching for the ideal female body to transplant Ulrike’s brain into. At the same time, her arch-rival, Detlev Schlesinger, an extreme right-wing ideologue, arrives at the conference with the ashes of Michael Kühnen, the former German neo-Nazi leader and infamous homosexual who died of AIDS in 1989. When the two Frankenstein’s monsters of the extreme left and the extreme right meet, chaos ensues.
BIOGRAFIE Bruce LaBruce
Born in Southampton, Canada in 1964, he attended film school in Toronto and studied film theory at York University. His film Hustler White screened in the Panorama in 1996 and was his first international cinema success. His work has often featured in the Berlinale, most recently Pierrot Lunaire which screened in the 2014 Forum Expanded and won the Teddy Award. He has also directed numerous music videos and theatre plays and contributes writing and photographs to international magazines, newspapers and websites. His work as an artist has appeared in numerous international exhibitions.
FILMOGRAFIE Bruce LaBruce (selection)
2017 Ulrike's Brain
2017 Refugee's Welcome
2017 Ulrike's Brain
2017 The Misandrists
2014 Pierrot Lunaire
2013 Gerontophilia
2013 Defense de Fumer
2012 Offing Jack
2010 L.A Zombie
2010 Weekend In Alphaville
2009 The Bad Breast
2008 Give Piece of Ass a Chance
2007 Otto
2004 The Raspberry Reich
1998 Skin Flick
1996 Hustler White
1994 Super 8 1/2
1991 Slam!
1991 No Skin Off My Ass
1988 I Know What It's Like to be Dead
1987 Boy/Girl
1987 Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
@IMDb Bruce La Bruce
Interview with Bruce LaBruce
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