Bildnis einer Trinkerin

English title: Ticket of No Return

Director: Ulrike Ottinger    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Ulrike Ottinger lived in Paris from 1962 to 1968, working as a painter and photographer. In 1966, she wrote her first screenplay, Die mongolische Doppelschublade. In 1969, she founded the filmclub visuell in Konstanz, which she headed until 1972. She has lived in Berlin since 1973. Since then, she has made 21 films, as well as directing plays and operas. Her films have been screened at every major international film festival. Her work has also been honored with numerous retrospectives and exhibitions from Mexico to Shanghai, New York to Oslo.

Country: West Germany

Year: 1979

Synopsis: She, a woman of exquisite beauty, of classical dignity and harmonious Raphaelesque proportions, a woman, created like no other to be Medea, Madonna, Beatrice, Iphigenia, Aspasia, decided one sunny winter day to leave La Rotonda. She purchased a ticket of no return to Berlin-Tegel. She wanted to forget her past, or rather to abandon it like a condemned house. She wanted to concentrate all her energies on one thing, something all her own. To follow her own destiny at last was her only desire. Berlin, a city in which she was a complete stranger, seemed just the place to indulge her passion undisturbed. Her passion was alcohol, she lived to drink and drank to live, the life of a drunkard. Her resolve to live out a narcissistic, pessimistic cult of solitude strengthened during her flight until it reached the level at which it could be lived. The time was ripe to put her plans into action. (Introduction, excerpt from the script)

Language: German