No Place to Go

No Place to Go (2000)

Die Unberührbare

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the communist state as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no one to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go.

Date of release
2000-04-20
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama
Director
Oskar Roehler

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Nuremberg
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

No Place to Go is a German black-and-white film released in April 2000, directed by Oskar Roehler, starring Hannelore Elsner, about a suicidal middle-aged writer travelling around Germany at a time of personal crisis.

Background

The film echoed the life of Gisela Elsner, the mother of the film's director, Oskar Roehler. A strong believer in Lenin, and for many years a member of the German Communist Party, Elsner was one of the most radical satirical writers in West Germany and had won the Prix Formentor in 1964. She was traumatized by German reunification, and on 13 May 1992 killed herself by jumping to her death from a window at a hospital in Munich.

In real life, Gisela Elsner did not kill herself until nearly three years had passed after the fall of the Berlin Wall. For dramatic effect, Roehler condensed his mother's decline and suicide into a few days.

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