Das Versprechen

Das Versprechen 6.8

Margarethe Von Trotta, who was born in Berlin and studied German and Latin literature in Munich and Paris, has been involved in film since 1968, initially as an actress and 10 years later as a play and associate director. As the backbone of the new German film, her works explore the possibility among women, politics and film. In 1981, German Sisters, a totalitarian struggle between sisters, won the Golden Lion award for best picture at the Venice Film Festival, a film that depicts its worldview under Germany's unstable regime. And then from Rosa. Luxembourg to Friends and husbands and other works tend to be the expression of female textualism. "Historical background is often only the beginning of the film, not my focus," she said. "in the general environment, how women live is my interest. Das Versprechen, filmed in 1994, is her masterpiece in recent years. In the fall of 1961, a pair of lovers, Sophie and Conrad, tried to escape across the Berlin Wall to West Berlin, but only Sophie succeeded. From then on, the two people were separated by two places, but despite the passage of time, their longing for love.