Penthesilea / 1989

Penthesilea / 2018

A transsexual nurse from Puerto Rico and a french Baggage handler cross paths in a foreign city. As their lifes collide and influence each other, they both encounter hidden desires, hope and love.

Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons / 1974

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male phantasy? The film explores the complexities of such questions, but does not seek any concrete answers.

Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist / 1983

The film interweaves three layers: the centre is Kleist's play "Penthesilea". Like from a distance Kleist observes the relationship beween man and woman, when he transfers into mythical Greece what in his time became a problem for him in Prussia - and remains to be a problem also for us. The director's associations during the work form the second layer. Reality and fantasy blend to an imaginary biography of Kleist, the third layer. At the end of the film Kleist is identical with his title character Penthesilesa. (www.filmgalerie451.de)