Ein Mann wie EVA (1984)
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Cast
Eva Mattes, Lisa Kreuzer, Werner Stocker, Charles Regnier, Charles M. Huber, Carola Regnier, Albert Kitzl, Towje Kleiner, Sibylle Rauch, Frederike Wilde
An eccentric bisexual director gathers her troupe in a dilapidated house to make an unconventional adaptation as work and personal relationships begin to blur.
The story
E.V.A., an eccentric bisexual director, brings her troupe together in a dilapidated house to shoot an idiosyncratic film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s The Lady of the Camellias. As the production unfolds, the distinction between work and life begins to collapse, and roles and feelings shift among the group. The apparently nervous Gudrun turns to E.V.A., while E.V.A. becomes attached to Walter. Walter, however, is more interested in Gudrun, setting the troupe’s relationships in motion amid the film’s playful gender reversals.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The film playfully explores gender-swapping and role reversals, and re-creates scenes and events from Fassbinder’s personal and professional world that were familiar to people who knew the director intimately, such as its leading actress, Eva Mattes. E.V.A., a name alluding to Mattes, is a highly eccentric bisexual director who has gathered her troupe in a dilapidated house to shoot a very idiosyncratic film version of Alexandre Dumas’s The Lady of the Camellias. Before long, work and life merge, gender roles are turned upside down, and the protagonists are caught in constant exchanges of roles and feelings. Their interactions lead the apparently nervous Gudrun to turn to director E.V.A., while E.V.A. attaches herself to Walter. But he is much more interested in Gudrun …
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