DIE UNBERUHRBARE
(No Place To Go)
2000

Bay Area Premiere
February 23, 2001

Cinequest San Jose Film Festival

-->Written and Directed by.....Oskar Rohler
-->Hanna Flanders.....Hannelore Elsner [In more than 120 films, none of which I've seen]

Not everyone was happy and joyful when the Berlin wall came down. This is the story of an author who isn't sure what to do with herself after the fall of communism.

Elsner provides an acting tour de force. She basically travels from one East German town to the next trying to take the pulse of the newly freed citizens. She had dozens of best-selling books published about the perfection of communism. She looks up her old friends to find them either changing careers or embracing the open border. All the while she chain smokes, wears Irma Vep type outfits, and dons a wig that juts out a foot or so in both directions. She is heartbreaking and wacky. A perfect combination.

Shot in black and white with a blue hue. Dreary and cold. Worth a look for Elsner's performance. Not particularly uplifting.