Dreißig Jahre an der Peitsche

Film program, DE 2024, 90 min., dt. OV m. engl. UT

By: Rosa von Praunheim

With: Lady MacLaine, Katja Inga Baldowski, Léon Schröder u. a.

In typical Rosa von Praunheim docu-fiction style, the legendary gay Berlin filmmaker portrays his neighbor, who worked for decades as a professional dominatrix in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf. While the real Lady MacLaine reflects with wit and honesty on her life and work, this is impressively retold in reenacted scenes. The very bourgeois side that BDSM can have is portrayed just as ruthlessly as the coincidence that led Lady MacLaine to become a dominatrix. Kink in Wilmersdorf is down-to-earth and real in its own special way!

Manuela Kay