Frauennot- Frauenglück
Part One A song in praise of the doctor’s skill:
Sergej Eisenstein’s and Grigori Alexandrov’s film Women in Distress – Women’s Happiness was shot in Switzerland. The first part of the film takes the plight of women who have unwanted pregnancies as its theme Texpressive descriptions of the suffering and the deaths of women who secretly consult a back-street abortionist are contrasted with shots of rooms of Zurich University Clinic, where abortions can be performed safely and without any problems provided that the abortion is legal for medical reasons.
Actors: Johannes Steiner, Walpurga Gmür, und anonymen SchauspielerInnen
Director: Eduard Tiss, Sergej Eisenstein
Author: Grigori Aleksandrov
Country: Schweiz
Year: 1929
Produced by: Lazar Wechsler
subtitel: German
Length: 62 mins
BW / colour: BW with sound
Language: German, Italian
Distrubtor commerical: PRAESENS-FILM AG Postfach 919 CH-8034 Zürich info@praesens.com
Format: Masterband Film 35mm
Link: http://www.deutsches-filminstitut.de/zengut/dt2tb00395i.htm
Link: http://www.deutsches-filminstitut.de/filme/f035126.htm