Open Air at Silent Green: Portrait of a Drinker – Aller jamais retour

Ulrike Ottinger's stylized feature film PORTRAIT OF A DRINKERIN – ALLER JAMAIS RETOUR offers a sightseeing tour through Berlin, an exploration of the city's topography along a special route: The nameless traveler (Tabea Blumenschein), who arrives at Tegel Airport, simply wants to pursue her passion, drinking, undisturbed.Rich, a stranger in Berlin, and masking her feelings, she consciously drinks herself to death, accompanied by Lutze, the drunkard from the zoo, poor, familiar with her surroundings, and open-hearted, who drinks herself to death rather unconsciously. On their tours, they meet musicians, writers, and artists, including Nina Hagen, Kurt Raab, Volker Spengler, Günther Meisner, Martin Kippenberger, Eddie Constantine, Wolf, and Mercedes Vostell. Three ladies named “social issues,” “common sense,” and “exact statistics” play the role of goddesses of fate in a managed, technologized, standardized, mass-media-driven world.