Take it like a man, madame!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Take it like a man, madame! |
| Original title | Ta 'det som en mand, frue |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Mette Knudsen Elisabeth Rygård Li Vilstrup |
| script | Mette Knudsen Elisabeth Rygaard Li Vilstrup |
| production | Collective "Red Sister" |
| music | Nina Larsen Gudrun Steen Andersen |
| camera | Katia Forbert |
| cut | Ann-Lis Lund |
| occupation | |
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Take it like a man, madame! (Original title Ta 'det som en mand, frue ) is a Danish film that was released in 1975. He is called a feminist classic .
It was premiered on March 24, 1975 in Copenhagen. The film was shown in July of that year at the Berlin International Film Festival , ran from September 1975 in Sweden, from September 1976 in the USA and was shown in October 1976 at the Toronto International Film Festival . In Germany the film is shown in Danish with subtitles .
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Fifty-year-old Ellen Rasmussen leads the life of a housewife in a traditional middle-class marriage. She left school early, married early, and had two children who have since left home. She suffers from the hassle of cleaning the house , the bad mood of her husband Erik, from annoying representational duties, secretly drinks alcohol and shows all the symptoms of a neurosis .
She begins to think about gender roles and the dictates of a male society . She dreams of a role reversal in which women take on male roles, are bosses everywhere , pat their secretaries and enjoy privileges . Men wear chest toupees , take care of the household, look after the children and serve as sexual objects. She wakes up from her dream with a scream and has a nervous breakdown.
To emancipate herself from her emancipation, she is completing a course for an office job . Their applications for employment are rejected several times because of their age. Eventually she finds a job as an employee in a factory. When the workers there demand the same wages as the men for their work and go on strike , she takes part and is fired . However, the experience of the strike teaches them that women can succeed and change things if they show solidarity . She stays with her husband.
History of origin
Take it like a man, madame! was the first film by Mette Knudsen (* 1943), Elisabeth Rygård (* 1946) and the architect Li Vilstrup. They formed the collective “Red Sister” (Røde Søster) . The scriptwriters and directors met in 1972 at a camp for women. They were amazed at the low participation of women aged 50 or older in the camp.
They then conducted interviews with women of the age group and with representatives of social institutions. They examined the problems faced by women without vocational training in finding a job. They decided to make a commercial film and formed an all-female production team.
The film was shot and produced in 1974/1975. During the shooting, all those involved gathered in a plenary morning. All those involved, from the actors to the technical staff, received the same pay. 70 percent of the film was financed by the Danish Film Institute, further support came from a foundation, and the participants waived part of their wages.
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films called the film a "widely applicable and funny theses film about problems of equality in family, work and society from the point of view of a Danish women's group".
The time wrote:
“Beyond plain cabaret jokes, the film by the Danish women's group 'Rote Sisters' illustrates the absurdity of conventional roles.” Take it like a man, Madame! is "an equally intelligent, precisely observed and playfully cheerful agitation film."
The writer Tove Ditlevsen wrote in the Danish daily Politiken that the female audience laughed the most in the cinema:
"Although the men in the cinema were among the younger generation, they seemed slightly offended: Just like the male critic who had written that it was not easy for a fifty-year-old man to find work."
Web links
- Take it like a man, madame! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Take it like a man, madame! in the lexicon of international film
- Ta 'det som en mand, frue in the Dansk film database (Danish, film title must be determined using the index for "Oversigt")
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mention ( memento of the original from August 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the Nordic Film Days
- ↑ a b c Take it like a man, Madame !, 5th International Forum of German Films, 25th Berlin International Film Festival, Friends of the Kinemathek (ed.).
- ↑ Take it like a man, madame! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Film tips . In: The time of March 5, 1976 ( digitized version )
