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FICTION
Die Praxis der Liebe
Practising Love
Valie Export
Judith is a journalist. She investigates an unsolved fatal accident in a Viennese subway station and comes across an international
gun running organization. Her affair with Dr. Josef Fischoff, a physician, is not doing well and Judith sleeps badly and has
terrible nightmares. She has another friend, Alfons Schlögel, an industrialist, who is also involved in the gun running affair.
Slowly, Judith gets an idea of what is happening. She now sees that Schlögel is trying to use her. He manages to get hold
of the damaging evidence against him and Judith goes to the police but they do nothing. She realizes the hopelessness of what
she is trying to do. And her personal problems have not been solved.
Video-control in subway stations and in street traffic, tapes and cameras are very important for the structure of this film.
Mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence are the film's main themes. Valie Export deals with them on private, social and media levels,
adhering to the techniques of video avant-garde.
Technical Data | |
Running time: | 90 |
Format: | 35 mm |
Screen ratio: | 1:1.66 |
Language spoken: | German |
Production year: | 1985 |
Credits | |
Director(s): | Valie Export |
Writer(s): | Valie Export |
Cinematography: | Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein |
Editing: | Juno Sylva Englander |
Key cast: | Adelheid Arndt, Hagnot Elischka, Rüdiger Vogler, Elisabeth Vitouch, Liane Wagner, Paul Muller |
Producer: | Valie Export |
Producers: | Hermann Hendrich, Valie Export, Thomas Wullenweber |