Mutzenbacher

What an experimental set-up! Through a classified ad, filmmaker Ruth Beckermann went looking for men between the ages of 16 and 99 who had read the notoriously scandalous novel “Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Life Story of a Viennese Harlot Told by Herself”, which was published in 1906. In a setting that both exhibits and subversively undermines the power relations between men and women, controversial conversations unfold about lust and desire, passion and abuse, fascination and disgust, using the discourse on pornographic literature as a starting point.… >>>