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The Whole of Life

1983·Movie
1h 52min
100
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Barbara, a fifty-year-old lesbian whose lifespan has taken her through correction homes, mental hospitals, prisons and bouts of prostitution, approached Bruno Moll suggesting that she made a film of her life. Moll agrees and hires an actress, Serena Way. To interpret episodes in Barbara’s past. Barbara has in mind a Hollywood-style bio starring an actress on the order of Susan Hayward dramatically telling her story of a life ruined by bourgeois standards. The result is a semi-documentary mixing black and white segments of Barbara and Serena discussing the project with color scenes depicting little stories from the 1950’s, the heyday of bourgeois existence.
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100
MasterpieceGoodWatch score

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1 h 52 min

The Whole of Life runs 1 h 52 min.

What language is The Whole of Life in?

German

It was made in German. Produced in Switzerland.