Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Mums
  • Room to Move
  • Innocents (The)
  • Vanilla
  • Clocked
  • Starwalker
  • American Pastoral (An)
  • Jerrod Carmichael: Don't Be Gay
  • Queens of the Night
  • Matteo Lane: The Al Dente Special
  • Homem com H
  • Love Me Bait Me: The Power of Queer Representation
  • Snakes and Ladders
  • And Someone Else
  • Drag in the Dark
  • Into the Menstrualverse
  • More Beautiful Perversions
  • Prince (The)
  • Squid Game
  • 3670
  • New Dawn (A)
  • Googoosh: Made of Fire
  • Mother and the Bear (The)
  • Ailes Collées (Les)
  • Deaf President Now!
  • Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan (The)
  • Short Dick Man
  • Arenas
  • Blue Trail (The)
  • Jacob de Haan: A Voice Out of Time
  • Kokuho
  • If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile
  • SOLO
  • Richest Woman in the World (The)
  • Enzo
  • That Summer in Paris
  • Spark
  • Romería
  • Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (The)
  • Little Sister (The)

Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake

Country: Germany, Language: German, 86 mins

Original Title

Ulrike Ottinger - Die Nomadin vom See
  • Director: Brigitte Kramer
  • Writer: Brigitte Kramer
  • Producer: Brigitte Kramer; Hartwig Konig

CGiii Comment

This intimate personal portrait of Ulrike Ottinger, a unique, influential voice in women's cinema for over four decades, begins at the lakeside city of Constance, where she was born and started her career. Describing key moments in her life, including the impact of student protests in Paris and her move from painting to filmmaking, Kramer traces Ottinger's artistic development.

Excerpts from her films, notably Madame X; Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press; Johana d'Arc of Mongolia; and documentaries shot in Asia (recently released by WMM), explore her luxuriant cinematic style combining fact and fiction in opulent, idiosyncratic images. Interviews with collaborators and friends offer further insights into Ottinger's singular body of work.

A richly rewarding close-up of the woman director who, along with Margarethe von Trotta and Helke Sander, helped launch New German Cinema on world screens, ULRIKE OTTINGER—NOMAD FROM THE LAKE is an indispensable companion for any Ottinger film.


Trailer...

Cast & Characters

Ulrike Ottinger as Herself