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The Sex Thief

Beischlafdiebin
Part of

Christian Petzold: The State We Are In

November 30 - December 13, 2018

Petzold closes his unofficial trilogy about women on the run with this tale of a failed academic desperately seeking work and her femme-fatale sister, who dupes rich men around the luxury tourist resorts of Morocco.

YEAR
1998
COUNTRY
Germany
RUNTIME
85 minutes
LANGUAGE
German with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm
ORIGINAL TITLE
Beischlafdiebin

Introduction by Christian Petzold on December 2

The third of Petzold’s acclaimed television films closes his unofficial trilogy about marginalized women on the run with a tale of two sisters: Petra, a seasoned femme fatale posing as a successful hotel manager to dupe rich men around the luxury tourist resorts of Morocco, and Franziska, a failed academic desperately seeking a job in Cologne. Petzold portrays the exotic North African locale and the bright gray shops and transit zones of western Germany with the same stark equanimity, portraying a world of creepy businessmen, crippling debt, and the crushing weight of capitalism with a life of crime the only chance of escape. Courtesy of Austrian Filmmuseum.

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