Ulrike's Brain

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Ulrike's Brain
Directed byBruce LaBruce
Written byBruce LaBruce
StarringSusanne Sachsse
Release date
  • 11 February 2017 (2017-02-11) (Berlin)
Running time
55 minutes
CountriesGermany
Canada
LanguageEnglish

Ulrike's Brain is a 2017 German-Canadian drama film directed by Bruce LaBruce. It was screened in the Forum section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

The film, described by LaBruce in advance interviews as a sequel of sorts to his early film The Raspberry Reich,[2] stars Susanne Sachsse as Julia Feifer, an academic who possesses and can communicate with the brain of German Red Army Faction radical Ulrike Meinhof.[1] She is seeking to transplant the brain into a new body so that she can resurrect Meinhof and revive her goal of socialist and feminist revolution, but her plans are complicated when her archrival Detlev Schlesinger, an extreme right-wing ideologue, arrives with identical plans for the surviving brain of German neo-Nazi leader Michael Kühnen.[1]

The film, a spoof of the 1960s B-movie subgenre of mad scientists preserving human brains, is thematically linked with LaBruce's feature film The Misandrists, which premiered at Berlin's Panorama program in the same week.[3] Although both films were made in Germany, Ulrike's Brain received some production funding from the Canada Council for the Arts while The Misandrists did not.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Festival de Berlin 2017 : dix talents sous les projecteurs". Telerama.fr, February 9, 2017.
  2. ^ "Bruce LaBruce, Queer Filmmaker, Gets His Own Retrospective At NYC’s MoMA". Huffington Post, April 26, 2015.
  3. ^ "Außerirdische, Lost in Politics" Archived 2017-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. Dschungel, February 9, 2017.

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