Red Love

Red Love
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rosa von Praunheim
Produced by	Rosa von Praunheim
Screenplay by	Rosa von Praunheim
Based on	Red Love by Alexandra Kollontai
Starring	Sascha Hammer Mark Eins Helga Goetze, Olga Demetriescu Rose Hammer Bettina Sukroff Eddie Constantine Helga Goetze
Music by	Ideal, Din- a-Testbild, Jakob Lichtmann
Cinematography	Mike Kuchar
Edited by	Elke Granke Rosa von Praunheim
Production company	Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion
Release dates	20 February 1982
Running time	80 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Red Love (German: Rote Liebe) is a 1982 German documentary film directed by Rosa von Praunheim. The film, divided in two interspersing completely different segments, deals with two women deprived of independence for many years because of either their family obligations or an authoritarian spouse. One segment is a documentary interview; the other is a fictional tale.^[1]

The fictional narrative, made in the style of an early 20th century morality play, is based on Red Love (1927), a novel by Alexandra Kollontai, a feminist writer who was the first Soviet ambassador to Norway. It tells the story of a young woman Vassilissa (Sascha Hammer) who breaks with her early ideals to enter into a conventional bourgeois marriage and learns how to stand up to her womanizing husband (Mark Eins).

The second part is a documentary about Helga Goetze, a West German woman in her fifties, who after thirty years of a sexually boring marriage, left her husband and their seven children to join the Otto Muehl Commune in Vienna in order to live a life of sexual freedom. She became radicalized and oversexed claiming that all she wants to do is to have sex. While advocating for sexual liberation, she holds outrageous sexual ideas.^{[2] [1]}

Notes

References

• Murray, Raymond. Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Guide. TLA Publications, 1994, ISBN 1880707012

External links

• Red Love at the Internet Movie Database