Battle of the Sexes - The End of Patriarchy

The 42-year-old actress Marga has passed the zenith of her career and, due to advancing age and as a woman, collides with the limits of patriarchal society. A radically humorous critique of the conditions - and their transgression.

Marga, played by Margarita Breitkreiz, a forty-two year old actress apparently has passed the zenith of her career. Once acting for the most prestigious stages in Germany (Volksbühne Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Maxim-Gorki-Theater) it turns out difficult for her to get proper engagements. Not only in theatre, but also in film industry, it seems to become more challenging to get parts with advancing age, especially as a woman, moreover as a woman of migrant origin. If she gets an offer for a part, it’s mostly for those serving her Russian origin as a cliché. As a result, she increasingly has to deal with the employment agency's job agents, as well as retraining and other job offers while she starts realizing that the theatre and film business is ruled by inequity and discrimination. Yet even in society, which seems to be strongly influenced by patriarchal structures, she constantly collides with her own limits, or those of the woman in society. Until she decides to break out of the victim role and fight back.

Along the biography of its main actress „BATTLE OF THE SEXES - The End of Patriarchy“ tries to spotlight the issue of gender within the realm of the art, culture and film industry, not offering a clear view or answer but a thesis-like ever shifting arrangement of possible views by quoting differing feminist positions and integrating dialogues with experts of gender studies, cultural studies and feminists.


(Filmgalerie 451)