Yesterday Girl

"“Conventional film is dead. We believe in the new film.” So declared 26 young filmmakers in the Oberhausen Manifesto of 1962. One of its ideologues was Alexander Kluge, a director, writer and philosopher, now aged 93, whose first film, “Yesterday Girl”, became the Manifesto’s representative work and was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 1966. Jewish East German Anita G relocates to West Berlin and tries to start a new life there, but her attempts fail one after another. She runs into trouble with the law, changing jobs and husbands, finally finding freedom ... in prison. The author of this sharply socially critical film which ignores the rules of traditional film aesthetics, has also been called the German Godard. His work is almost completely unknown on Estonian screens – all the more reason for this screening. Tiit Tuumalu"