The Indomitable Leni Peickert

The Indomitable Leni Peickert

Die Unbezähmbare Leni Peickert
🎞️ Movie 34 min DE
โ˜… 6.2 /10 1970

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter work, seemingly assembled from leftover footage from the longer film, continues the story of the circus owner Leni Peickert (Hannelore Hoger) after she first abandoned her idea of a radical circus in favor of a job in television. It opens where the previous film left off, at a TV station where Leni and her friends have gathered as employees, attempting to infiltrate the corporate establishment with their own revolutionary ideas. This radicalism is somewhat undercut by the way that Kluge deliberately shoots down the low-cut blouse of one of these young revolutionaries, the camera eyeing her cleavage and then panning down, to the text she's reading, and then back up again, finding her sexuality ultimately much more interesting than her radicalism.

Cast

Hannelore Hoger
Hannelore Hoger
Leni Peickert
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Theodor W. Adorno
Diskutierender
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll
Diskutierender
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Alfred Edel
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Diskutierender
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Sigi Graue
Manfred Peickert
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Bernd Höltz
Herr von Lüptow
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Walter Jens
Diskutierender
Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge
Narrator
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Maximiliane Mainka
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Guenter Hoermann
Cinematographer
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Thomas Mauch
Cinematographer