Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant - Schedule, Program & Tickets

The successful and wealthy fashion designer Petra von Kant finds herself in a life crisis after her second marriage broke up. The taciturn Marlene, who is humiliated and exploited by Petra, lives and works at her side. Petra met the young model Karin Thimm through a friend, started a relationship with her and protected her career. Living together soon becomes problematic - Karin has affairs that she hardly hides and finally leaves Petra for her Australian husband, who surprisingly reappears. Once again Petra is left alone and when her mother and daughter come to visit her on her birthday, the situation escalates.

Premiered in 1971 as a play in Frankfurt am TAT and filmed in 1972, DIE BITTEREN TRÄNEN DER PETRA VON KANT is a self-reflection of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his own manipulative and abusive relationships; but also a universal study of the loneliness of a human being through the loss of the capacity to love and the insatiable longing to be loved to the extent one desires. For director Lilja Rupprecht, Petra von Kant's fashion design represents the design of a person who loves better and new concepts of life and work that the characters in the play are (still) bound to fail at.

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