Yesterday Girl (German Films 70)

Director: Alexander Kluge

screenwriter: Alexander Kluge
cinematographer: Edgar Reitz, Thomas Mauch
editing: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
cast: Alexandra Kluge, Eva Maria Meineke, Günter Mack, Hans Korte

“We declare that our ambition is to create the new German feature film.
This new cinema needs new forms of freedom: from the conventions and habits of the established industry, from intervention by commercial partners, and finally freedom from the tutelage of other vested interests”, so reads the legendary Oberhausen Manifesto.

One of the most important authors and advocates of this manifesto was the filmmaker and lawyer Alexander Kluge, whose films from the outset more than lived up to his self-imposed ambitions. His first full-length feature film YESTERDAY GIRL, made three years after the manifesto, then made it clear what to expect from the self-proclaimed Young German Film. Kluge recounts the story of the barely 30-year-old Jewish woman Anita G. (played by Alexandra Kluge, the director‘s sister), who has fled from Leipzig to West Germany during the years of the particularly chilly Cold War and has been trying in vain to gain a foothold. I

Photo: Alexandra Kluge in Yesterday Girl © Kairos-Film Dr. Alexander Kluge

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