Anita: Dances of Vice

Anita: Dances of Vice

Anita: Tänze des Lasters
🎞️ Movie 89 min DE
โ˜… 6.8 /10 1987

In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin. (Berber died of tuberculosis in 1928, having achieved significant success and recognition throughout the dance world.) Frau Kutowski is placed in a mental hospital, where in her own mind she acts out Berber's final days, including in her fantasies the hospital's staff and patients, to represent Anita's friends and associates. She relives the adventures, scandals, triumphs, trials and tribulations of Anita Berber, and finally merges her own real existence with that of her imagination, until fantasy actually becomes reality. The film makes use of both color (Expressionist style) and black & white (documentary style) to draw the line between fantasy and reality, respectively. Watch how this line is crossed over!

Cast

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Lotti Huber
Frau Kutowski
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Lotti Huber
Anita Berber
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Ina Blum
Nurse
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Ina Blum
Anita Berber
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Mikael Honesseau
Doctor
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Mikael Honesseau
Sebastian Droste
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Tilmann Lehnert
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Marion Kutschke
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Bernd Henckels
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Nadja Reichardt
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Andreas Hofer
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Gertrud Goroncy
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Joerg Dauscher
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Konrad Elfers
Composer
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Edvard Lieber
Composer
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Alan Marks
Composer
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Rainer Ruppert
Composer
Elfi Mikesch
Elfi Mikesch
Cinematographer