“How is it that some people decide the fate of others?” asks Rosa Luxemburg in the opening of Margarethe von Trotta’s 1986 biopic of the anti-war, anti-capitalist philosopher and activist. Sub “others” for ‘women’ and this question is everywhere in von Trotta’s work. By way of factual and fictional tales of women revolutionaries like Hannah… Continue reading Failing to Act, Acting to Fail: The Films of Margarethe von Trotta (by Emily Watlington)
Essays about Margarethe von Trotta 