'Women are becoming terminators,' warns ebullient Bavarian juror Marianne Sägebracht. 'It scares me that motherly care and concerns seem to be disappearing from the cinema.' The vivacious comedienne has been trying to do her bit - she can be seen in Schlöndorff's costly The Ogre in the New German section today and also in the Kinderfest in Lorenz in the Land of the Liars, made by German director Jürgen Brauer in Luxembourg.
'I loved making this surreal fable (released here in April). It is very, very funny and I am the only one who won't obey the laws to lie - my cats have to bark, and the dogs miaow, but I rally the children to resist. I also just played the Jewish sister of Sophia Loren - would you believe! - in a film directed by Roger Hanin in Casablanca that will probably premiere at Cannes out of competition.
'In September I'm forming a company called Risk Productions, to direct Paradise Kaput?, an adaptation of Oscar Panizza's scandalous play Council of Love. It will be a co-operative venture - I don't want roubles from Russians hiding in Mexico, but I have 200 people who will each invest DM5,000 (US$3,000). I want to make films that share a little humanity and are not re-edited by distributors and marketing men.' PB
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