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Affengeil
Affengeil
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rosa von Praunheim
Screenplay by	Eva Ebner; Lotti Huber; Rosa von Praunheim
Produced by	Rosa von Praunheim
Starring	Lotti Huber ; Rosa von Praunheim ; Helga Sloop ; Gertrud Mischwitky
Cinematography	Klaus Janschewsky ; Mike Kuchar
Edited by	Mike Shephard
Music by	Marran Gosov ; Thomas Marquard
Production; company	Exportfilm Bischoff
Distributed by	First Run Features
Release date	27 October 1990;
Running time	87 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

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Affengeil (English title: Life is Like a Cucumber) is a 1990 German semi-documentarian film by Rosa von Praunheim. The film was shown at the 1991 Toronto International Film Festival and 1992 at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, among others.^[1]^[2]

Plot[edit]

Film about the life of Lotti Huber, who was discovered by Rosa von Praunheim for the big stage when she was almost 70 years old. The multi-talented artist tells a moving story about catastrophes and successes that she has experienced.

Reception[edit]

"Lotti is an ingenious grotesque and a consummate performer." (The Motion Picture Guide, 1993) The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "Praunheim's fictional documentaries or documentary fictions, however one may categorize the works of the auteur filmmaker, are characterized on the one hand by an amazingly self-deprecating sincerity and on the other hand by a deeply affectionate description of the people in his worlds. [...] Legendary are his portraits of the maternal muse Lotti Huber. He erected monuments to the extravagant actress, dancer and diseuse of the Berlin underground [...]."^[3]

Notes[edit]

^ "LIFE IS LIKE A CUCUMBER". Mubi. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
^ Murray, Images in the Dark, p. 109
^ Dannenberg, Pascale Anja (24 November 2012). "Falsch, aber echt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 2022-04-29.

References[edit]

Murray, Raymond. Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Guide. TLA Publications, 1994, ISBN 1880707012

External links[edit]

Affengeil at IMDb

[Mubi-1] "LIFE IS LIKE A CUCUMBER". Mubi. Retrieved 2022-04-30.

[Murray_109-2] Murray, Images in the Dark, p. 109

[FAZ-3] Dannenberg, Pascale Anja (24 November 2012). "Falsch, aber echt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 2022-04-29.

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-'''''Affengeil'' ''' ([[German language|German]]: Affengeil: eine Reise durch Lottis Leben)  is a [[1990 in film|1990]] [[Germany|German]] [[documentary]] [[film]] directed by [[Rosa von Praunheim]].  The film recounts the eventful life of Lotti Huber, a dancer, actress and cabaret performer, who was the star of the director’s previous films: [[Anita: Dances of Vice]] and ''Our Corpses Are Still Alive.'' <ref name = "Murray 109">Murray, ''Images in the Dark'', p. 109</ref>
+'''''Affengeil''''' ([[English language|English]] title: '''''Life is Like a Cucumber''''')  is a [[1990 in film|1990]] [[Germany|German]] semi-documentarian [[film]] by [[Rosa von Praunheim]]. The film was shown at the 1991 [[Toronto International Film Festival]] and 1992 at the [[Frameline Film Festival]] in [[San Francisco]], among others.<ref name="Mubi">{{cite web|title=LIFE IS LIKE A CUCUMBER|url=https://mubi.com/de/films/life-is-like-a-cucumber|work=Mubi|access-date=2022-04-30}}</ref><ref name = "Murray 109">Murray, ''Images in the Dark'', p. 109</ref>
-The film consists of extended interviews with Huber using photographs, film clips and field trips to recreate her life. The ten year professional relationship between the film director and his subject is explored. Rosa von Praunheim appears arguing about the control of the direction of the film as Hubert insist to be portrayed "Just as I am"<ref name="Murray 109"/>
 ==Plot==
+Film about the life of [[Lotti Huber]], who was discovered by Rosa von Praunheim for the big stage when she was almost 70 years old. The multi-talented artist tells a moving story about catastrophes and successes that she has experienced.
-Lotti Huber, in her late seventies at the time of filming, is a short, chubby flamboyant old lady of remarkable vivacity. Appearing wearing large hoop earrings and dramatic makeup, she recounts vividly important events and successes of her life. At the beginning of the film, she demands from Praunheim to make a documentary about her.
-Huber was born in [[Kiel]] in northwestern Germany and grew up in Weimar. Her mother inflected in her a sense of independence and a love for studies. At age 16 she fell in love with the son of the mayor of her town. As she was Jewish and he was Aryan, their relationship ran against racial Nazi ideology. Her boyfriend was arrested and shot by the Nazis while she was sent to a concentration camp from which she escaped. The details of her flight are so fabulously incredible, she claims, that she refrains from telling that story.
+==Reception==
-After the war she traveled extensively: Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus and London. By age 27 she was living in Israel, where she developed a successful career as an exotic dancer. She later opened and operated a hotel and restaurant in Cyprus, something unusual for a woman to do in that time and place. She did not return to Germany until the 1960s when, she established a charm school in Berlin. She later spent several years demonstrating products in a department store. In one scene, she is shown teaching belly-dancing to middle-aged women. While she had several marriages, she worked as cabaret performer, dancer, restaurateur, teacher, model, movie extra and finally actress starring in two films directed by Rosa von Prauunheim. Their ten year professional relationship is shown as bickering. Praunehim question the veracity of some of Hubert’s incredible tales and Lotti appears asking the director’s mother about her son’s homosexuality.
+"Lotti is an ingenious grotesque and a consummate performer." ([[The Motion Picture Guide]], 1993) The German [[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]] wrote: "Praunheim's fictional documentaries or documentary fictions, however one may categorize the works of the auteur filmmaker, are characterized on the one hand by an amazingly self-deprecating sincerity and on the other hand by a deeply affectionate description of the people in his worlds. [...] Legendary are his portraits of the maternal muse Lotti Huber. He erected monuments to the extravagant actress, dancer and diseuse of the Berlin [[Underground culture|underground]] [...]."<ref name="FAZ">{{cite news|title=Falsch, aber echt|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/rosa-von-praunheim-zum-70-falsch-aber-echt-11971326.html|work=[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]|date=24 November 2012|access-date=2022-04-29|last1=Dannenberg |first1=Pascale Anja }}</ref>
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 [[Category:West German films]]
 [[Category:Films directed by Rosa von Praunheim]]
-[[Category:1990s documentary films]]
+[[Category:1990 documentary films]]
 [[Category:German documentary films]]
+[[Category:1990s German-language films]]
+[[Category:1990s German films]]