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Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave vent to a new kind of art. They became active in the underground communist party KPD and showed a heart-felt interest in the colour red, the aesthetics of the revolution. Soon, though, the twins quit their experiments in Germany. They left their husbands and went to Rome, where they met the fabulously wealthy Paul Getty III, and soon things got really out of hand.
When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread.
Veronika is a young, devoutly religious Berlin woman from a strict bourgeois background diagnosed with schizophrenia. She experiences a profound mystical awakening, leading her to believe she is chosen by God to experience and absorb all human suffering through extreme asceticism and indiscriminate sexual encounters.
My mother will die. Jutta interprets the diagnosis of an incurable cancer as a spiritual crisis. Accompanied by Rainer Langhans, to whom she has a deep friendship since over 40 years, Jutta travels to India and goes on the search for a healing experience from within.
About Ursula "Uschi" Obermaier, a former fashion model, and actress associated with the 1968 left-wing movement in Germany and the "sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock and roll" era. Considered an iconic sex symbol who dated Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Syd Barrett, Jimi Hendrix, Rainer Langhans and many others.
