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The Whole of Life

Jan 28, 1983 · 1h 52m
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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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Guerino Faoro
Marie-Louise H.
Brigitte Hengartner
Bruno Moll
Nathalie Stöckli
Nelly Thiel
Claudia Vitelli
Thomas Vitelli
Directed by Bruno Moll

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