Portrait of a drinker

Movie
Original title	Portrait of a drinker
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1979
length	107 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Ulrike Ottinger
script	Ulrike Ottinger
production	Ulrike Ottinger
music	Peer ravens
camera	Ulrike Ottinger
occupation
	Tabea Blumenschein : You; Christine Lutze : Drinker from the zoo; Magdalena Montezuma : Social Question; Orpha date : exact statistics; Monika von Cube : common sense; Nina Hagen : Guest; Kurt Raab : Guest; Volker Spengler : Guest; Günther Meisner : Guest; Eddie Constantine : at the artist's table; Wolf Vostell : at the artist's table; Mercedes Vostell : at the artist's table; Martin Kippenberger : office manager;

Portrait of a Drinker (English title: Ticket of No Return ) is an experimental fictional film by Ulrike Ottinger .

action

A rich, elegant woman (in the film only: "she") goes to Berlin to give herself completely to alcohol. She meets another, but poor drinker (the drinker from the zoo ). They both move through the city. She goes through dreams in which she does different jobs. Various fictional characters, such as the exact statistics or the social question, comment on the events. The film made Tabea Blumenschein famous in Germany in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Ulrike Ottinger describes the characters of the film: A psychogram of two unusual ... women. One, rich, eccentric, hiding her feelings like a mask, drinks herself to death. It is the case that does not appear in the statistics because it is either kept under Valium at home or under lock and key in a private clinic. The other is poor and unconsciously drinks herself to death. She appears in the normal statistics as the type of unstable drinker.

Reviews

Lexicon of international film : Staged with haunting, sometimes extremely mannerist images; mixed in the overall impression because of the imprecise use of the cinematic means.

Web links

Of No in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Portrait of a drinker at filmportal.de
Portrait of a drinker at ulrikeottinger.com

Individual evidence

[1] ttp://www.deutsches-filmhaus.de/chr_kino/ch_79.htm

[2] Portrait of a drinker. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 7, 2016 .