
            Alice in den Städten is the story of Philip Phil Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) a German author contracted to write a book about America. We catch up with Phil in California after driving cross-country with a Polaroid camera for inspiration. He returns to his Publisher (Ernest Boehm) in New York and decides to go back to Germany to finish his book. While attempting to book a flight to Munich he discovers that there is an airline strike in Germany and that all flights in and out of the country are, for the time being, cancelled. He then encounters a young German woman Lisa (Lisa Kreuzer) with a young girl, Alice, (Yella Rottländer) who are in a similar predicament. They team up and decide to wait a day for the next flight to neighboring Austria and then driving into Germany from there. While in New York Phil goes to see his friend Angela (Edda Köchl), he attempts to sleep with her but she refuses to have anything to do with him. Phil goes to the hotel where Lisa and Alice are staying for the night and he sleeps there.
The next morning Phil wakes up to a note left by Lisa saying that she will meet them in Austria due to the fact that her boyfriend is hysterical and she has to help him. Phil and Alice then fly to Austria and wait for Alice's mother. Phil realizes that her mother is not coming and they set out looking for Alice's grandmother, only Alice does not know her name or where she lives. After aimlessly searching for several days Phil decides to go to the police and let them deal with the abandoned girl. He leaves the police station and goes to a chuck Berry concert. After the concert Alice hops back into Phil's car remembering her grandmothers name and the city she lives in. They then set out and find the house only to discover that her grandmother does not reside there any longer. The police then catch up with Phil and ask why he and Alice disappeared. Phil learns that Alice had simply left out of the police station and was not released. The officer tells Phil that they had found Alice's mother and that he may accompany them to the train station to see Alice off. Phil does not have money for a train ticket so as he is saying goodbye to Alice at the station she gives him a hundred dollar bill so that he can go with her on the train. He accepts Alice's offer and the film ends with the two of them riding a train back to Munich.
    

Alice in the Cities


            
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Kings of the Road

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            Synopsis of Marianne and JulianeTwo sisters choose diverging paths of rebellion against the system. Juliane works as a feminist journalist rallying for womens right to abortion while Marianne commits herself to a violent revolutionary terrorist group. The film quickly informs us that Marianne has abandoned her husband and child to work for a radical terrorist group. Her husband arrives at the house of Julianne and states that Juliane must take Jan (their son) because the husband has to leave the country for work. Juliane is not supportive of her sisters choices because she feels that it is damaging to the fight for the womens movement. She informs the husband that she does not have time to care for the child. Next the husband steps out to go get something promising to return but instead takes his life leaving Jan without a guardian.Marianne shows up on the scene to discuss her political views with her sister and urge her to join the movement. Juliane informs her of her husbands suicide and of her intent to find a foster home for Jan. Marianne asks her sister to watch over Jan but Juliane replies you would have me take on the life that you chose to leave. Basically stating so whats not good enough for you is good enough for me. Juliane sticks by her guns and refuses to take on Jan. This fact still doses not stop Marianne from continuing on in the movement. She is content to allow Jan to have the life that will be dealt to him through foster care because she believes that any life he has in foster care will be better then the life many children have in third world countries.The sisters paths continue to cross as Marianne bursts in unannounced to her sisters life. The last time that Juliane sees her sister before she is arrested Marianne wakes her and her long-term boyfriend up at 3a.m. and wants to make coffee and take Julianes clothes. We soon discover that her sister has been arrested and is being held in a high security prison. Juliane goes to visit her sister. When she arrives at the prison she is ordered to strip down and is searched. Then she is let into the waiting room and told to wait for her sister. The guard returns and informs her that Marianne refuses to see her.Juliane goes home agonizing over her inability to communicate with her sister and see how she is doing. Her boyfriend suggests that she write a letter to her sister telling her how she feels. The film goes into a flashback of their childhood where we see the closeness of the sisters. Juliane mails the letter and soon after is able to visit with her sister. They argue often but Juliane continues to come and visit her sister. They have a bad argument on one of these occasions and Marianne slaps her sister. Marianne is then moved to a maximum-security prison where the two must sit on the opposite sides of a pain of glass and communicate through intercom.Juliane becomes so obsessed with her sister and her problems that her own relationships begin to fall apart. Her boyfriend suggests that the two of them take a vacation together. While on vacation they see the face of Marianne on T.V. but cannot understand what has happened to her because of the language barrier. Juliane runs back to their hotel and calls her parents to find that Marianne has committed suicide. Juliane and her father do not believe that Marianne actually killed herself. Juliane begins an obsessive journey to discover what really happened to her sister. This destroys her relationship of ten years. She ultimately proves to herself that Marianne was murdered but when she calls the papers with the news she is informed that her sisters death is old news and nobody cares if it was murder or suicide. Juliane is left with the knowledge but cannot convince the papers to defend the life of an ex-terrorist.Later Juliane is reunited with Jan because someone attempts to murder him when they find out whom he was the son of. Juliane takes him back home with her after he has undergone extensive reconstructive surgery. He is aloof and has no interest in having a relationship with his aunt. He has nightmares of the fire that nearly killed him.The film ends with him walking into Julianes workroom and tearing up the picture of his mother that is on the wall. Juliane tells him you are wrong Jan. Your mother was a great woman. Ill tell you about her. Jan says that he wants to know everything and then yells start now! Start now! The film fades out on Julianes face looking at him.
    

Marianne & Juliane


            CONTAINS SPOLIERS This is a real diary from a real woman. The woman cast in this film is too young too play the real woman. The diary was written by a woman in the basement of her bombed out building during the invasion of Berlin by The Red Army in the last months of WWII. It details the way German women survived the rapes the Red Army officers felt they deserved in victory. Anonymous uses one soldier to her advantage and essentially considers him her lover not her rapist. Her real fiancé returns from the front only to spurn her for being raped. The inginuity of the survival techniques used by the Berliners of this time round out Anon's tale. The diary should be read by every priveleged person, man or woman. Americans especially. War is no place for socialites.Regarding the age of the author vs. the actress; the author was 34 when writing the diary. Nina Hoss 33 at the time of filming. Great book.
In this movie appears Juliane Köhler who will later play the role of Clara, Fritz Shimon Haber's wife in Haber (2008).
    

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