No Mercy, No Future
5.8 /10 1 Votes
Director Helma Sanders-Brahms Duration Language German | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Country West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1 November 1981 (Hof International Film Festival) Writer Rita G. (texts), Helma Sanders-Brahms Initial release November 18, 1981 (France) Directors Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jutta Bruckner, Ula Stockl Cast Elisabeth Stepanek (Veronika Christoph), Nguyen Chi Danh (Der Erste), Karl Heinz Reimann (Kind Gottes), Jorge Reis (Demba), Carola Regnier (Ärztin)Music director Harald Grosskopf, Manfred Opitz Screenplay Helma Sanders-Brahms, Rita G. Similar movies Helma Sanders-Brahms directed The Heiress and Under the Pavement Lies the Strand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No mercy no future
No Mercy, No Future (German: Die Berührte) is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms.
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Plot
Veronika Christoph, the troubled daughter of uncaring bourgeois parents, has been institutionalized due to her schizophrenia. Without proper psychiatric treatment for her unearthly visions, she prowls the streets along the Berlin Wall at night in search of God, yet settles for the company of strange, exiled men.
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Release
The film was released on DVD by Facets Multi-Media in 2008.
Reception
Thomas Elsaesser, author of European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood, wrote that No Mercy, No Future was a "relative" failure in the commercial and critical aspects compared to Germany, Pale Mother and that the situation "may have led Sanders-Brahms in the direction of the European art cinema." London's Time Out has referred to the film's performances as faultless and it was screened at the 1982 Berlin International Film Festival and won the British Film Institute's Sutherland Trophy Award for 1981. Critic Michael Atkinson praised the film as a "classic, show-it-all acting coup that doesn’t wriggle free of your memory very easily."
References
No Mercy, No Future WikipediaNo Mercy, No Future IMDb No Mercy, No Future themoviedb.org