Portrait of Valeska Gert : Summary
Valeska Gert was famous in the Twenties for her performances as a “grotesque dancer” with Anita Berben in Berlin, at the Prolet-Kult in Moscow and at the Theatre des Champs Elysées in Paris.
She appeared in films by Pabst and Renoir, is supposed to have been Sergei Eisenstein’s great love, ran a night club in New York during the war, a cabaret in Berlin in the Fifties and finally an artists’ pub on Sylt.
In the film she speaks with inimitable repartee and typical Berlin brashness about her scandals and the people she met. She recreates her grotesque dances and pantomimes for the camera with the young Nastassja Kinski.
Hanna Schygulla says that Valeska Gert was the only person she would have ever wanted to have acting lessons from.
Movies
- 2012Das Meer am Morgen
- 2007Ulzhan
- 2005Strike
- 2005Enigma Variations
- 2004The Ninth Day
- 2001Ten minutes older
- 2000The Legends of Rita
- 1998Palmetto
- 1996The Ogre
- 1992Billy, how did you do it?
- 1991Voyager
- 1989A Handmaid's Tale
- 1987A Gathering of old Men
- 1985Death of a Salesman
- 1983Un Amour de Swann
- 1982War and Peace
- 1981Circle of Deceit
- 1980The Candidate
- 1979The Tin Drum
- 1978Germany In Autumn
- 1977Portrait of Valeska Gert
- 1976Coup de Grace
- 1975The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
- 1974Georgina’s Reasons
- 1972A Free Woman
- 1971Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass
- 1970Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach
- 1969Michael Kohlhaas
- 1969Baal
- 1967Der Paukenspieler
- 1966A degree of murder
- 1965Young Törless
- 1960Wen kümmert's