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The Indomitable Leni Peickert

55% | Mar 29, 1970 | Drama

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter work, seemingly assembled from leftover footage from the longer film, continues the story of the circus owner Leni Peickert after she first abandoned her idea of a radical circus in favor of a job in television. It opens where the previous film left off, at a TV station where Leni and her friends have gathered as employees, attempting to infiltrate the corporate establishment with their own revolutionary ideas. This radicalism is somewhat undercut by the way that Kluge deliberately shoots down the low-cut blouse of one of these young revolutionaries, the camera eyeing her cleavage and then panning down, to the text she's reading, and then back up again, finding her sexuality ultimately much more interesting than her radicalism.

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Alexander Kluge
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Alexander Kluge
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Hannelore Hoger
Leni Peickert
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Bernd Höltz
Herr von Lüptow
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Sigi Graue
Manfred Peickert
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Heinrich Böll
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Martin Walser
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