1 + 1 = 3 (1979)
Director: Heidi Genée
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A modestly engaging, low-key feminist movie about an unmarried actress in Munich who becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and eventually moves in with a more agreeable man she meets on a winter sports holiday. In the end she determines to live and raise her child alone, a decision which, considering the men in the movie, seems eminently reasonable. Don't get the impression that this movie has it in for men; it's much harder on the parental generation, and very sympathetic to kids who find themselves unwitting victims of middle class domestic unrest. Heidi Genée worked as an editor with the first wave of new German directors (Kluge, Sinkel), and has a keen eye for the absurdities of domestic life as well as a good ear for comic lines.Author: MA
Cast & crew
Director: Heidi Genée
Producer: Peter Genée
Cast: Adelheit Arndt, Dominik Graf, Christoph Quest, Helga Storck, Dietrich Leiding, Charlotte Witthauer, Kelle Riedl, Hark Bohm full cast
Duration: 85 mins
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