| Genre: | Art/Foreign |
| Year: | 1966 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 90mins |
| Country: | Germany |
| Cast: | Karen Kluge, Gunther Mack, and Alfred Edel |
| Credits: | Directed by Alexander Kluge (German w/English Subtitles. B/W, 16mm) |
Synopsis
Kluge's stunning first feature follows Anita Giestern, a Jewish refugee from East Germany, as she wends her way through an inhospitable Federal Republic. She seeks to come in from the cold, but finds neither sactuary or succor. She wants to better herself, but, repeatedly, her interviews with responsible (but truth unresponsive) officials only confuse her. Yesterday Girl is remarkable for its documentary verisimiltude and discursive willfulness, its sensitivity to everyday inflections and bureacratic locutions, its singular blend of protocols, quotations, intertitles, voice-overs, and nursery rhymes. Anita G's plaintive stare intot he camera at film's end recalls the haunting look of a freeze-framed Antoine Doined in the final shot of 4000 Blows.
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