Moral

Is this woman dangerous? In MORAL, Ellen Richter plays a famous revue star whose self-confident appearance and attitude is seen as a threat by the morally pious citizens of a provincial German town. They force her off the stage, but away from public view they pay her personal visits with sleazy intentions. But this woman fights back. She secretly films her suitors and thus exposes their morality as a double standard. A sure-fire success for Ellen Richter, who shines as the diva alongside the Tiller Girls in the film’s spectacular revue scenes, and effortlessly fends herself against the men’s attacks with wit and cleverness. Ellen Richter’s husband Willi Wolff turns Ludwig Thoma’s classic stage play from 1908 into a snappy jazz-age satire full of situation comedy and energy while assuming a female camera gaze. (Philipp Stiasny/Oliver Hanley)

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Eunice Martins (Berlin) studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and the Musikakademie Wiesbaden. Since 2000, she has been accompanying silent films as house pianist at the Arsenal cinema. She has made guest appearances at numerous international festivals, theaters and cinematheques in Italy, Brazil, China, Taiwan, and elsewhere.