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A film by Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth. Showing at the fsk from 17 December. In English with German subtitles.

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An extra­or­di­na­ry artist gets an extra­or­di­na­ry docu­men­ta­ry: “BROKEN ENGLISH”, about and fea­turing the musi­ci­an and actress Marianne Faithfull, playful­ly blends docu­men­ta­ry, bio­pic and staged per­for­mance, just as the British artis­tic duo Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard did in “20,000 Days on Earth” and “Nick Cave”.

The fic­tion­al “Ministry of Not Forgetting”, hea­ded by Tilda Swinton, offers the sin­ger Marianne Faithfull the chan­ce to edit ever­y­thing rela­ting to her rich and eventful life sto­ry hers­elf for the archi­ves. In the role of the inter­view­er, George MacKay (1917, Sense and Sensibility) goes through all the mate­ri­al he could find about the pop icon with her. This gives Marianne Faithfull the oppor­tu­ni­ty to speak for hers­elf about the artis­tic per­so­na crea­ted for her by the press. With gre­at com­po­sure, this excep­tio­nal artist – who for many years was per­cei­ved by the press sole­ly as Mick Jagger’s girl­fri­end – looks back on her life. Songs she has writ­ten, reinter­pre­ted by sin­gers such as Jehnny Beth and Courtney Love, and occa­sio­nal inter­views round off the con­cept, right up to her most recent per­for­mance along­side Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

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UK 2025, 98 mins, English with German sub­tit­les
Directed by: Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth
Cinematography: Daniel Landin, Erik Wilson
Editing: Luke Clayton Thompson
Starring: Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Calvin Demba, Zawe Ashton, Sophia Di Martino
Appearing as them­sel­ves: Marianne Faithfull, Suki Waterhouse, Beth Orton, Courtney Love, Jehnny Beth, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis

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