A film by Barbara Loden. In English with German subtitles. Starts April 4th at the fsk. Preview on April 2nd.
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Wanda Goronski, an unhappy housewife from rural eastern Pennsylvania, stays on her sister’s couch after leaving her husband. After walking across a coal field and hitching a ride, she arrives late to a divorce court hearing, relinquishes her rights to her children, and grants her husband a divorce.
After losing her job at a sewing factory, Wanda runs away with a man she had a one-night stand with, only for him to abandon her at an ice cream shop. Nearly penniless, she takes a nap in a movie theater, where she is robbed while asleep. Desperate, she goes to a bar to use the restroom and clings to an older man she mistakes for the bartender. The man, Norman Dennis, is a criminal in the process of robbing the bar. Unable to shake Wanda off, he takes her on the run with him. Even after learning about his criminal lifestyle, Wanda decides to stay with Norman, whom she calls „Mr. Dennis.”
Wanda spends some time on the road with Norman, during which he becomes physically and emotionally abusive. He sends her to a mall to shop for new clothes while he robs cars in the parking lot. Later, they visit the Holy Land USA theme park, where Norman meets his Evangelical Christian father, to whom he shows unusual courtesy and respect. Afterward, Norman convinces Wanda to act as his lookout for a kidnapping and bank robbery. The robbery goes wrong, and Norman is shot and killed in the lobby. Wanda arrives late and watches from the street as police swarm the scene and onlookers gather.
Once again alone, Wanda hitchhikes with a man who attempts to sexually assault her. She escapes and flees through the woods. At nightfall, she stumbles upon a backwoods roadhouse, where strangers offer her food, alcohol, and cigarettes.
Credits:US 1970, 103 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Barbara Loden
Kamera, Schnitt: Nicholas T. Proferes
mit: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes, Jerome Thier, Marian Thier u. a.
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