The Indomitable Leni Peickert

Synopsis

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter work, seemingly assembled from leftover footage from the longer film, continues the story of the circus owner Leni Peickert after she first abandoned her idea of a radical circus in favor of a job in television. It opens where the previous film left off, at a TV station where Leni and her friends have gathered as employees, attempting to infiltrate the corporate establishment with their own revolutionary ideas. This radicalism is somewhat undercut by the way that Kluge deliberately shoots down the low-cut blouse of one of these young revolutionaries, the camera eyeing her cleavage and then panning down, to the text she's reading, and then back up again, finding her sexuality ultimately much more interesting than her radicalism.

Main Cast

Hannelore Hoger

Leni Peickert

Age : N/A | Popularity : 12%

Bernd Höltz

Herr von Lüptow

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Sigi Graue

Manfred Peickert

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Heinrich Böll

Diskutierender

Age : 67 | Popularity : 16%

Martin Walser

Diskutierender

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Walter Jens

Diskutierender

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Hannelore Hoger Alexander Kluge
Directing	Director	Alexander Kluge
Editing	Editor	Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Camera	Director of Photography	Thomas Mauch Günther Hörmann
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