Ulrike's Brain

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Referencing sixties B-movies like "They Saved Hitler’s Brain" and "The Brain That Would Not Die", "Ulrike’s Brain" finds Doctor Julia Feifer (Susanne Sachsse) arriving at an academic conference with an organ box. Inside the box: the brain of Ulrike Meinhof, which was saved by the authorities along with the brains of the three other leaders of the RAF after their deaths in Stammheim prison. Doctor Feifer can communicate telepathically with Ulrike’s brain, which is directing her to lead a new feminist revolution. To that end, she is searching for the ideal female body to transplant Ulrike’s brain into. At the same time, her arch-rival, Detlev Schlesinger, an extreme right-wing ideologue, arrives at the conference with the ashes of Michael Kühnen, the former German neo-Nazi leader and infamous homosexual who died of AIDS in 1989. When the two Frankenstein’s monsters of the extreme left and the extreme right meet, chaos ensues.

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  • Runtime

    55 min
  • Country

    Germany, Canada
  • Year of Presentation

    2017
  • Year of Production

    2017
  • Director

    Bruce LaBruce
  • Cast

    Susanne Sachsse
  • Production Company

    Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion
  • Berlinale Section

    Forum
  • Berlinale Category

    Feature Film

Biography Bruce LaBruce

Born in Southampton, Canada in 1964, he attended film school in Toronto and studied film theory at York University. His film Hustler White screened in the Panorama in 1996 and was his first international cinema success. His work has often featured in the Berlinale, most recently Pierrot Lunaire which screened in the 2014 Forum Expanded and won the Teddy Award. He has also directed numerous music videos and theatre plays and contributes writing and photographs to international magazines, newspapers and websites. His work as an artist has appeared in numerous international exhibitions.

Filmography Bruce LaBruce

1987 Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies | 1987 Boy/Girl | 1988 I Know What It's Like to be Dead | 1991 Slam! | 1991 No Skin Off My Ass | 1994 Super 8 1/2 | 1996 Hustler White | 1998 Skin Flick | 2004 The Raspberry Reich | 2007 Otto | 2008 Give Piece of Ass a Chance | 2009 The Bad Breast | 2010 Weekend In Alphaville | 2010 L.A Zombie | 2012 Offing Jack | 2013 Defense de Fumer | 2013 Gerontophilia | 2017 Refugee's Welcome | 2017 Ulrike's Brain