Edvige Schmitt (1985)
Run Time - 89 min. |
Countries - Germany |
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
This interesting experimental film by Matthias Zschokke is based on the biography of a 1920s woman, Hedwig Schmitt, who lived all her working life as a servant of one kind or another. As a consequence she was harassed exploited, and generally treated poorly by her multiple employers and co-workers. After stints as a maid and waitress in London and Milan, Edvige (Ingrid Kaiser) -- using her Italianized name -- is driven to the brink of desperation by the lewd or just impolite stares of the people she meets. After she gets pregnant while working as a servant in Holland, she travels to the U.S. and gets a job in New York where she stays until tragedy strikes. Her story is told as a series of dream-like sequences that blend reality and fantasy together.