''Red Love'' (

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: Rote Liebe) is a 1982

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directed by

Rosa von Praunheim Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; 25 November 1942), known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of the most influential and famous LGBT social move ...

. The film premiered at

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in 1982 and was shown, for example, at

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in 1983.

Plot

This film, based on a novella by

Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (; , ; – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician. Serving as the People's Commissar for Welfare in Vladimir Lenin's government in 1917–1918, she was a highl ...

, is about the Soviet women's rights activist and revolutionary Vasilissa, who wants to emancipate herself from her domineering lover Vladimir, the director of the trade cooperative. The last resort left to her is to kill the bitter patriarch.

Reception

The renowned German critic

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wrote in the magazine

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: "Rosa von Praunheim, who since his early hits ''The Bed Sausage '' and ''Berlin Bed Sausage'' has known how to put us out of our minds about the neat distinction between kitsch and art, between emotion and sentimentality, has also staged a pleasurably disturbing conundrum with ''Red Love''."

Notes

References

*Murray, Raymond. ''Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Guide''. TLA Publications, 1994,

External links

* 1982 films Films directed by Rosa von Praunheim West German films Films based on Russian novels 1980s German-language films 1980s German films {{1980s-Germany-film-stub