The Weaker Sex
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16mm Film - The Weaker Sex - BRD 1954
Direction: Wolfgang Becker
Script: Carl Erras and Friedrich August Mainz
Camera: Klaus von Rautenfeld and Kurt Grigoleit
Music: Unknown
Narrator: Peter Höfer
Cast: Ina Peters, Luise Ullrich, Maria Schell, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Clare Boothe Luce, Louise Schroeder, Elly Heuss-Knapp, Theodor Heuss, Queen Elizabeth II, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ("Mrs. Nehru"), Käthe Kruse, Bele Bachem, and others.
A documentary film with feature film scenes that illustrates the modern professional activity of women using historical and contemporary photographic and film material. Through individual sequences, the social transformation from the housewife and wife to the employee is dramaturgically elaborated using three fictional types of women and their professional careers. Comments from a male voice-over aim to support the thesis of successful female emancipation: the mutual respect of the sexes in marriage, in daily life and in the workplace.
Direction: Wolfgang Becker
Script: Carl Erras and Friedrich August Mainz
Camera: Klaus von Rautenfeld and Kurt Grigoleit
Music: Unknown
Narrator: Peter Höfer
Cast: Ina Peters, Luise Ullrich, Maria Schell, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Clare Boothe Luce, Louise Schroeder, Elly Heuss-Knapp, Theodor Heuss, Queen Elizabeth II, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ("Mrs. Nehru"), Käthe Kruse, Bele Bachem, and others.
A documentary film with feature film scenes that illustrates the modern professional activity of women using historical and contemporary photographic and film material. Through individual sequences, the social transformation from the housewife and wife to the employee is dramaturgically elaborated using three fictional types of women and their professional careers. Comments from a male voice-over aim to support the thesis of successful female emancipation: the mutual respect of the sexes in marriage, in daily life and in the workplace.
Sources
- YouTube channel: The Art of Film on 16mm · video ↗ — title, description, video
- 16mm Filmography editors — title, year, country, description
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