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    No Mercy No Future

    Helma Sanders-Brahms 1981 Germany color 110min German DCP
    This film was not scripted but improvised as the actors went along. It chronicles a limited time period from the life of a schizophrenic woman whose activites are divided between the bed and trying to commit suicide. She comes from a wealthy family and is never given a real chance at psychotherapy or medical care, let alone medication. Instead she drifts from a Jesus commune to marriage registration office , all the while looking for a lover who is Jesus incranate. Her behavior is based on insanity and serves as an excuse to show multiple, explicit scenes of sex and bloodletting that certain viewers would find offensive.

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    Helma Sanders-Brahms

    Helma Sanders-Brahms was born in Emden in 1940.She studied Acting,German and English and worked as a teacher.She was an intern on productions by Corbucci and Pasolini and made her first film,Angelika Urban,Salesgirl,Engaged,in 1970.Her films have received numerous national and international awards such as the German Film Award for Heinrich and Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand the Grand Prix of Montreal for Laputa in 1986.She was made a "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres"by French culture minister Jack Lang in 1991.

    Helma Sanders-Brahms

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