Silent movies

List

I have to start writing them down before i forget

poster human machine waste from Aelita, the queen of mars"

Lilian Harvey in "Her dark spot"

• Menschen untereinander (1926) von Gerhard Lamprecht wiki
• The end of sank Petersburg -Конец Санкт-Петербурга (1927) Vsevolod Pudovkin
• cyankali -cyanide (1930) Hans Tintner
• In spring - Весной (1929) Mijail Kaufmann
• Du sollst deine Frau ehren (1925)Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Aelita, the queen of mars (1924) Yakov Protazanov
• Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang
• Unter der Laterne (1928) Gerhard Lamprecht
• Berlin, die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (1927) Walther Ruttmann
• October, Ten Days That Shook the World (1928)Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
• Ihr Dunkler Punkt (1928) Johannes Guter link
• Cosmic Journey [Kosmicheskij Rejs](1936) Vasili Zhuravlev.very abstract series of images movie.
• The New Babylon/ Новый Вавилон (1929) Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg.
• Prästänkan (The Parson’s Widow) (1920) Carl Theodor Dreyer
• The Lodger: A Story of London Fog (1927)Alfred Hitchcock
• Downhill (1927) Alfred Hitchcock
• Ich möchte kein Mann sein (1918) Ernst Lubitsch.
• Variete (1925) not sure about this one.
• Lost of sensation - гибель сенсации (1935) Alexander Andriyesvski does not pass the Brechdel test-
• Der Schneider von Torshok (1925) Jakov Protasanov - a lotery ticket plays a central role in this movie as well as in the girl with the hatbox. no wonder this movies finds itself in the NEP-era that happened from 1921 till 1928. The movie also has a sort of anti-nep critique in which Katia the saleswoman has to deal with her NEp explotative boss.
• The girl with the hatbox - Девушка с коробкой-(1927) Boris Barnet -
• Zvenigora (1928) Alexander Dvozenko
• Arsenal (1929) Alexander Dvozenko
• Earth -Земля (1930) Alexander Dvozenko
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks -Необычайные приключения мистера Веста в стране Большевиков (1924) Lev Kuleshow
• Menschen am Sonntag (1929) Robert Siodmak.
• Safety Last (1923) with Harold Lloyd wiki
• Man with a Movie Camera -кино глаз(1929) Dziga Vertov
• the Kid (1921) Chaplin and the new masculinity of raising a baby alone.
• Gold Rush (1925) Chaplin
• Stride, Soviet! (1926) Dziga Vertov. "What began as a commission by the sitting Moscow Soviet for a promotional movie," says the Harvard Film Archive, "was transformed by Vertov into something else entirely: a film experiment, an emotional film – anything but a picture that would help the Mossovet be reelected. El film sigue la estetica de "Kino Glas" mucha imagen, poco hilo conductor. es imposible darse cuenta que es un film de propaganda politico, de hecho algunas ideas son repetidas tantas veces que ya te hace desear que termine, si lo siento este film se me hizo largo, igual lo disfrute.
• Bed and Sofa (1927) Третья Мещанская. Abraham Room. Its a film i wanted to watch since a long time! this film is supposed to portray a threesome, well i dont think is enough to just live in the same house to have a threesome, so to my and everybodys disappointment, there is no threesome, the 2 male characters are friendly and civilized about the fact that they end up dating the same lady (the wife of one of them) this is cool but thats it. The shores at home are pretty much understood to be taken by the female character, which interestingly enough and contrary to the NEP times, does not work outside the house. Nevertheless she does dress like the NEP,... mmm i have to research into this, also on the late night bread-buzing going, also on the person that turns on the street lights, also on the abortion clinic, "announced in the english subtitles as privat clinc". finally, this films has awesome footage of Moscow. link1 link 2 link 3
• Häxan (1922) written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts.[3] The film was made as a documentary but contains dramatised sequences that are comparable to horror films.
• Modern Times Chaplin (1936) i can not believe it took my sooo long to finally watch this movie, simply awesome! so political, and soo atemporal, i will be delighted to read some analysis on the mentioning of a work related "breakdown" (i seriosly thought this is a "modern" say neinties concept) and the nose-powder-cocaine reference. awesome!
• City lights (1931) also a chaplin one, also very worth seeing, i was mislead to think that this one was "candilejas" en español, pero no, esa es limelight, and the confusion lies on the light part. what do they mean?

  El limelight, también conocido como luz de calcio o luz de Drummond, es un tipo de luz de escenario, que se utilizó en teatros y music halls en el siglo XIX. Funciona cuando una llama de oxihidrógeno se proyecta sobre una malla cilíndrica de cal viva (óxido de calcio),1​ que puede llegar a 2.572 Cº antes de fundirse, genera una iluminación de alta intensidad. La luz se produce por una combinación de incandescencia y candoluminiscencia. Aunque ya hace mucho tiempo que se sustituyó por el arco eléctrico, el término ha sobrevivido en Inglaterra: cuando alguien es un personaje público famoso, se dice que está in the limelight (cuyo equivalente en el lenguaje español es en el «candelero», es decir en el foco de atención).

  which makes me think that "candileja" is some other spanish version, that am not familiar with, cause for me it makes no sense, no relation, not like "candela" o candil o candelabro, en fin.
• Fraulein Else (1929) this title basically doesnt say much but this movie is amazing! first the original german version is lost so they remade it out of an italian plus a danish version, in short, the subtitles had to be re-subtitled into german. I would call the whole plot a meta reference (of course i mean this one is first) to "propuesta indecente" con demi moore aja ahora me acorde del nombre de ella pero ni idea como se llama esta peli en English, en fin. at the cinema they said the movie got ban and bla bla i couldnt find references of that, there is though a krakauer (!!) critic on wikipedia, it seems he found it plain, whatever. i like it, it has a lot of tension and this tension is very well develop )))).
• Jujiro (1928) Teinosuke Kinugasa. I guess the interesting thing of this film is to pick on all the cultural references that one as "western" doesn't understand at first. the story in itself is not so awesome and also not so clear, but there are some siblings and the guy is "in love" with a geisha and he goes into fights and the sister has to cure him and take care of him, so much so that she thinks of going into sex work to get money for him, which brings us to one scene where 2 woman talk about money and not men! (Brechdel test) but still the pimp is not a character. the other interesting thing is the police stick that someone "found in the street" and at least from the movie it sounds that u just need that to become a police. then the other thing is the crocked teeth, which i have read is a thing in japan (yaeba). and finally the white powder... is this a fashion thing? or a geisha only thing? i guess it also depend on the epoch. finally the director had a soviet cooperation for a movie in 1966 which should be interesting Маленький беглец
• La Boheme (1926) King Vidor

Tag des Denkmal

This is 2 days when protected building are open for visit, this happened on the weekend of the 10 and 11 of September

it comes with a booklet this big! only for Berlin

Saturday

• Altes wasserbetrieb Friedrichhagen

Here we were signed in for a tour, which is usually something one needs to do in advance anytime is an event by the Berlin Unterwelten (which i Highly recommend). So we missed a bit of the tour cause we thought we had to enter through the actual wasserbetrieb (in function) and not to the "old" one which is actually a museum. SO the museum from outside could be mixed with a church, it is built in that cute brick style

Das Wasserwerk Friedrichshagen ging 1893 als drittes städtisches Wasserwerk in Betrieb. Es war damals das größte und modernste Werk Europas

more info
• Schoneweide AEG

Schöneweide ist die „Wiege der Elektropolis Berlin“. Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts entstand hier einer der größten Industriestandorte Europas.

We check this out cause we were on the neighborhood, but basically none of the buildings we were interested were open today, at the entrance there was the building which used to be the main offices, and there now there are ateliers, those were open and you could check them out.

• Unterwelten museum

I guess i would have enjoyed this museum more in an earlier phase of my life, now its just to presumptuous. in few words its cool but in a way its abstractness and huge spectrum are trying to encompass too much, and thats not posible, if the focus would be more clear.. or maybe i didnt get it.. dunno =(

• Die Brauerei Königstadt

So this was an original plan B which ended up being an awesome idea. We got a tour by the architect of the renovating project of the brewery. we visited the old undergrounds, which were specialy built to make the famous beer " »Bayerischer« Brauart, (which i dont know which is, or why it is so special) which needed extra cold temperatures, so in this undergrounds they would collect snow from winter. the undergrounds are now parking spaces, and the brewery itself is space for offices and others. (Win Wenders has his headquarters here)

webpage of the project

Sunday

• AEG-Versuchstunnel


there are 3 areas with huge AEG buildings built by Peter Behrens, this is one of them, close to Humboldtheim. Well at the end of the 19 century there was a fight between Siemens and AEG on who is gonna built the Berlin metro, for this purpose, AEG did this try-out tunnel, with the measures of a real metro wagon but only one rail obviously. this site has been taken over by the Berlin Unterwelten, they havent open it yet for booking but i can only imagine its gonna be awesome.

more info
• Schwerbelastungskörper


This site also belongs to the Berlin Unterwelten, it is a key part of the Germania project, which was hitler plan to turn downtonw Berlin into a monstrous roman villa. So the plan consists of 2 axes, and before starting building, because of the sandy soil of Berlin, they decided to built this huge 12 tons of cement building and see if it sinks. They calculated it can sink maximum 2 cm, well its 19 cm so far. They built a plataform were one can see on top of the cement building, once there they tell you that the idea was to later cover this mass, yes in order for the main central building ti be seen from everywhere they wanted to increase all the areas around it. ach its difficult to explain but lets say this cement building is 16 metres, well is was gonna be all covered in soil, and that covering was supposed to be all around. crazy shit!

more info
• The new Synagogue

All my Berlin life i have been waiting for an opportunity to enter the old synagogue of Oranienburger strasse. now i did and it was pretty awesome, starting by the fact that we entered through the main gates, which are never open. the synagogue as the space to carry the praying ceremony is not there anymore, but since the funny shape of the surface where the synagogue is located (not so much front to the street) the architects at that time decided to put the crowning couple on the entrance, so it could be seen from everywhere, so on top of the surviving entrance, there is the couple. then you have a second room where was where you could wash yourself before the synagogue. In those 2 rooms there is ton to read about the Jewish life of Berlin, really interesting!

wiki

conlusion, follow whatever the Berlin Unterwelten offer, they are awesome, but careful, not all the unterwelten are the unterwelten you thought ;-)

deficit cultural

Que significa?

http://www.educacion2020.cl/noticia/presidenta-tenemos-que-hablar-de-educacion-parvularia http://www.education.com/reference/article/cultural-deficit-model

Lo primero que debo decir es que el deficit cultural no tiene nada que ver con el deficit atencional, no es un homologo en el sentido de que signifique alguien que no presta atencion a la cultura. Este seria un deficit en el sentido de algo que falta, algo que se discute en modelos educativos, existe por un lado la pregunta, como superamos el deficit cultural y por el otro lado existe la idea de que tal cosa no existe, que es otro invento mas para echarle la culpa a la discriminacion , cultural tal vez.

Modernidad

Dicen que París es eterno, como Roma, como Estambul, como toda ciudad cargada de historia, tan diferentes a las nuestras en donde urbanistas y hombres de negocios se obstinan en renovar, en transformar, en borrar toda huella del pasado para demostrarnos que hemos alcanzado esa tierra prometida de los países sin memoria: la modernidad entendida como una especie de "decencia económica". Falso paraíso. O más bien, paraíso artificial del -ya viejo- "sueño americano".

Sobre la remodelacion de las estaciones de la linea1 de Stgo se lamenta Rodrigo Gendelman, el lamento se transformo en una campaña en la red social para salvarlosmosaicos ,... los usuarios que veíamos en esos mosaicos y cerámicas tanta belleza, diseño y buen gusto. Y que ahora presenciamos cómo la estética de nuevo rico ha convertido estas estaciones en algo parecido al baño de un departamento piloto. Es decir, no sólo se aniquila patrimonio, sino que además lo que se remodela se hace sin la más mínima creatividad y preocupación.

Luxuswohnung, nein danke!

Steigende Bevölkerungszahlen, Wohnungsnot, Neubau, Modernisierung, zu hohe Mieten...
können wir uns den Luxus von Innenstadtgärten noch leisten?
Zwangsräumungen, Modernisierung, steigende Mieten, zunehmende Armut,
können wir uns unseren Kiez noch leisten?
Was bedeuten die Innenstadtgärten für die Stadtökologie?
Alles nur Spiesser?
...oder soziale Gemeinschaft in Kleingartenanlagen (KGA) statt Privateigentum.
Passt auf, dass uns die Stadt nicht weggeklaut

Lange Nacht 2016

As i see it now, that might have been the last day of extreme hotness (32degrees), august in Berlin is really very weird, it can rain and be cold, or be summer up thirty degrees. anyhow, we didnt break our own record, the number remains 5 museums

and we started with

Spy Museum

cause its new and i wanted to check it out.

This museum is located in Leipziger platz, next to Potsdamer platz, it deals with as its names already points out, spies, its has lots of info to inform oneself, aha but that is not the deal on the LN cause if you do that you dont get anything done, as in number of museums visited.so if i can sum it up would say, well done, the museum looks super cool and the way the info is displayed its also very didactic, interactive and simply cool, for instance, they have this vitrines with glass and IN THE GLASS there are some things being projected or? i dont know how to explained it but there is animated things going on ON the glass display. cool =) We did the queue for the laser game, which was super cool and,i won! ahaha maybe because i picked the easiest level, but who cares i won. they also gave me a cute certificate to remind me i won, the point is i saw a lot of people fail, so thats why am happy, then we moved to the

Berlin Story Museum und Bunker

well... when we were entering to this museum there was a bunch of people listening to one middle aged guy which was saying things that didnt sound as if he would be the type of guide we will like to have. we entered the bunker and asked if that guy was the guide, he was =( thankfully enough when it was our time, we got another guide =). Anyway the Bunker by itself is cool, and maybe MAYBE if there is a person that one has one day in Berlin and wants to see it all in one room, this is their place, for me? nope, too much, so i think is was the history of the IIWW packed into 3 room, that is for me to much, and of course very superficial, i think i would not recommended, also because its a bunker, so its not the best ambiance to stand and read... also maybe MAYBE i can imagine there is other people like me that would like to see the bunker in its sort of natural state... well they offer that too (cause the bunker is big) because it was the LN and they had a lot of visitors, the bunker visit was short, still cool, and also with the other non-colonial guide so double cool, (he was making jokes about hitler, so yes, really cool). The coolest thing we got from the museum though, was an old map of the area we live in, which later on, we did find online, its an awesome web-page zeitreisen-berlin.de

Game science center Berlin

This is like a startup center, mmm even though, i ve seen more hyspter places.. well maybe it doesnt work all the time but the location is cool, inside is just a barn. Here they were showing different games, all of where where either interactive or requiere some sort of computer interface. most of them very coool! and the rest probably cool too, it was just too fool and thus it was boring to wait your turn - all the time- but there was this really cool topographic projection on top of sand.

Museum of Technology/ Science Center Spectrum

This was the highlight of the night, from moment 1 we knew we were gonna get stuck there, and yes, we did. so this museum, is actually 2, but we didnt understand that at the begging, we started with the technology one, it starts with the display of some cars and at that moment i didnt get what this was gonna be... now i see, its the technological development history and they decided to start with cars...at some point in the middle they deal with communication, and there we tried this special fabric that kills your phone (further reference killyourphone.com).The trip ends with a 3D printer and some explanations, or better reflections on the new forms of spreading knowledge and information

The online reference work Wikipedia is written by independent volunteers. Only 18 people were registered to work on the German-language wikipedia in 2002, by 2015 over 140.000 editors were registered 88 percent of whom were men.

The way the info is displayed in this museum is very didactic and it motivates you to read it all. i love it a lot. =)
The other part of the museum is 3 floors of sensorial experiments, very cool for all ages, i think though i would like to explore this museum with more time, or maybe not... i dont know i guess one has to be in the right mood for experiments. Outside the museum they had set up a rohrpost system, this is an "old" system that people used to send messages, actual pen and paper messages, through a tube propelled by air (in this case they had a profesional vacuum cleaner that as we learned that night can be turned from sucking to blowing function XD ).

I found this add from the 90s which has a girls as gamer

Dom

I wanted to end the night by visiting Nefertiti, which i have not seen after 3 years living in Berlin. but at 11:00 we went to the dom, the main church of Berlin, which we also have never seen before because strangely for the house of god, one needs to pay to enter, which i dont do, so this was a good opportunity, even though i thought they will let climb the tower, i guess it was too late. anyway we saw the dom, nice, they have also an short explication video, in english, thumbs up.

Women as lovers - Elfriede Jelinek

A book

Last year i found this book in a bookshop in a corner of Prenzlauer berg. It cought my eye cause i watched the "the piano teacher", and that was weird, and i like weird. she won the literature novel, also the title is catchy.

Am just gonna paste some quotes here of my favorite moments

Brigitte also hates heinz among other things, because he always lets a physical feeling for brigitte rise, just when gitti would like to talk about her emotional problems, which involve a little house with a garden. whenever brigitte wants to turn her innermost to the outside and spew out all the crap about happiness, future, baby care and washing machines, then heinz acts as if he didnt have a brain, but only a cock. (p.62)

You ve got yourself completely dirty, says susi in a friendly way, she is quite indifferent to brigitte. as far as susi is concerned it doesnt matter if b exist or not. brigitte's existence does not affect susi's life in any way. susi is very nice to brigitte, because it doesnt cost anything, and brigitte can take anything from her, not even her cooking skills. Brigitte however hates everything about susi. susi's existence is a constant threat. if heinz is once shown something better, he may possibly then also want to own it. NO! (p.78)

And erich the happy father, will spend every free minute with the mother and child, will spend every free minute looking after his young wife, give up alcohol, no longer hate everybody, not fritter away any money any more and so forth. paula intends to open her whole overburdened heart to her momma. the reason: her momma has herself been several times a momma and consequently understands her condition, which paula is in. she even understands this condition better than a man, who can always only be a daddy and has nothing more to do with all that shit, that's women business. paula tells women's business to a woman, that is her momma, who is a woman. (...) paula's momma has often enough hated her husband because of the children in her stomach, because of the extra work and the horrible birth process, had also very many times hated the children inside her stomach and later the children outside her stomach, now momma has finally cracked, so that not only does she hates a child outside her stomach in her daughter's stomach, but the daughter as well (p.114).

Paula suffers so much, she almost goes mad. she thinks that her mind is running away out of every orifice, out of every orifice a little bit of mind, until it's empty. she runs her poor head against the wall again and again, her good parents are happy, that they can save themselves the bother of more thrashing, paula is taking care of it herself, well done. there is no female solidarity to be expected from her mother. if she has to croak because of cancer, then paula can at least suffer a little in her head, which is much less serious than the physical pain, which mummy will shortly be facing. her father says now you can go on with the dressmaking, so that you can support your child (p.124).

the two of them go to the old barn, it doesn¡t matter now anyway. paula has already endured so much, this is a proper holiday by comparison. at least she can lie quietly on her back and rest. a flock of birds flies over the mow field into the forest, one behind the other, autumn will soon be here. you can expect description of nature here for your money as well! this isn't the cinema after all. paula lies very quietly and peacefully on her back. she has a section of the hard-worked back of erich, who is fumbling about with her there, in sight, but she can rest a little too and look up at the blue sky, it's already getting cold, soon the first snow clouds will appear. a mist is rising from the ground, the forest turns into a wall, the pale trunks disappear in the darkness. nature for a human being, it is an elemental force. is that not a little deer over there? the evening news will soon begin on television! at last paula can rest a little and perhaps still bind erich to her. one can forget the slight pain of it, there are worse pains, which paula could name. love is lesser pain in the hierarchy of pain. then, as erich rises from her stomach unbound, unimpressed, wipes himself and stows it away again, buttons himself up, a hope falls away from paula again down into the rotting straw. but if one has at lost hope, one has at least been able to rest. lying down is good for the baby too.(...) there is not the least love in paula, if there is something in paula, then it's hate, which grows and grows. these feelings didn't enter her of their own accord, some people had to work hard for it (p.127).

some thoughts

There are basically two couples, which due to the similarities are very difficult to keep apart for i will say the first half of the book, they are described very mixed also. the quotes i picked are very good examples of daily inequalities, i think i like the book because first its from a woman's perspective, and second because its very raw. I like particularly the example of "female solidarity" gone wrong and also the way love and hate are portrayed, I think this painful love that she uses to describe sex (rape actually), goes very much together with the whole bunch of "romantic references" where love is supposed to hurt, still the result of these interaction is not love but hate, i find that very powerful. hate somehow is a controllable feeling, it keeps you at peace(or pace?) with things, you know its not love, thus you can remain focus on what you have to do.

Mainstream killed the radiostar

The sky is the limit

Honecker-Brezhnev

This is a piece of Advertisement i found the other day (April 2016) in the Berlin metro. AT closer look there is no shop/firma/company campaign, so i do not know to which company this belongs,UPDATE- is libeskind a "famous" shop for bags. what is clear is that it is advertisement, the question is "what the f&%k does fight for love" has to do with Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev?, -this kiss that happened during the festivities of the 30th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic of East Germany in 1979-...has nothing to do with love neither with handbags! i resign.

Ad AirBerlin summer 2015

After a superficial search into the requirements for becoming a flight attendant/ cabin crew I found this forum with Q&A...:
What if I have a visible tattoo or piercing?
You must always look professional in the uniform. You must be willing to adhere to all our uniform standards. They include that no tattoos, body piercings or tongue rings are visible while you are in uniform. Tattoos may not be covered with adhesive bandages or by other methods, to render them not visible.

Video Killed the Radio star

Egymásra nézve

There is the movie i watch the other day, and i liked it so much I read the book. And thats basically it. But no, thats never it, i have got like ten thousand things to comment on the movie. lets start.

A Lesbian movie

yes I would call it Lesbian, wait i would google it, maybe there is some sort of test.

The term “lesbian movies” is the "search term" for people looking for films about women who like other women, but these movies usually feature women of all sexual orientations besides “straight.” So i did find what a lesbian film is not:

• when the films relies solely on lesbian subtext or eliminated or side lined a lesbian story line that was present in the book it was based on.
• when it promotes the dangerous idea that a lesbian is just a woman who hasn’t met the right man yet
• when the lesbian character was so small or her sexuality was so subtle that you could watch the film and not even remember that there was a queer involved

100 best lesbian queer bisexual movies- autostraddle-

Bechdel Test

Not to mix with the test that asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man.

Egymásra nézve

is the original name in Hungarian, in English is "ANOTHER WAY" and in german "DER ANDERE BLICK" which for some reason is not the same name they used for the book, even though the book used fotos from the movie in the cover, so the book i read in german is called "EINE ANDERE LIEBE" or another love somehow.

The movie as i mentioned is hungarian as well as the author of the book, the directors of the movie seem to be two males from Hungary Károly Makk and János Xantus in 1982. The two main females characters are Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak and Grażyna Szapołowska who are from Poland and presumably polish speaking, thats why in the IMDB of the film one can see that besides her names they included a "voice" actress. even though Jadwiga did more movies with the director it seems that the inclusion of the polish actresses had to do with the TV strike in Poland at that time (more on this to come).

Comparisson

The movie in youtube

The author of the book Erzsébet Galgóczi (1930-89) co-wrote the scrip with one of the directors. The book was first published in 1980 ( original name Törvényen belül) It will be optimal to to know what happened in the political context as well as in miss Galgoczi's personal life between 1980 and 1982. The movie is Lesbian, the book? well...not so much.

The narration in the book is through a man's eyes (boring!). Marosi is the commander (lose translation, boss of other military people of lesser rank, couldn't care less of having this wrong) of the border patrol that kills Eva, She was trying to escape in a dark foggy night. the border patrol couldn't see if she was escaping or what, so once they told her to stop, they rather shoot her. Later they bring the body to Marosi, he identifies her as her old school sweetheart. She was the only woman never to give away to his charm (hä?), he decides to go to Budapest to find out why was Eva trying to escape the country. He will talk to every person that knew or was close to Eva. By talking to Eva's landlord he gets her address book, letters and some unfinished notes. In the film this character doesnt exist.

The first encounter between Eva and Livia happens when Eva comes to work to the magazine where Livia also works. They start sharing an office. In the book Livia starts annoying Eva to the point Eva falls in love with her (? kindergarten-style)

Ich kann mich nicht mehr ändern, sagte sie mutlos.Vieleicht will ich es auch gar nicht . Die Krankheit ist zeitgleich mit der Menschheit. Die Sünde ist viel jünger. Die krankheit aber, die ein großer Teil der Gesellschaft für Sünde hält - ich weiß das sehr wohl- gibt mir die Möglichkeit, mich als tragische Heldin zu fühlen und nicht als willenlose, unfähige, bemitleidenswer Pestbeule. Sag Zoltan, warum bin ich nicht vollkommen, weder in der Normalität noch in de Anormalität?

This is from the book a conversation that Eva has with her other co-worker Filan Zoltan, here she explains him why she can not change and be with him. In the book Filan Zoltan goes out with Eva and also with Livia. Livia in the book is also the lover of the chief redactor of the magazine. None of the parallel stories with men happens in the movie.

In both the movie and the film there is the park scene under heavy snow, Eva and Livia are kissing in a park bench and the police comes to ask for their IDs. They sent Livia home cause she is married, instead they take Eva to the police station because she is single.

In the film there is a bar where the workers of the magazine go frequently, it is shown that one female waitress is sort of paying attention to Livia and Eva's love exchange, later on the waitress tries to pass her phone number to Eva. not in the book.

in the film, after Livia's husband killings attempt, Eva is called to declare on the case. an the police office (probably, not sure) the detective gets into a weird conversation with Eva, he wants to know "how do you do the thing to each other?" (!?) Eva screams: "with our fingers! we stick them up there - yes? - yes! one finger, two fingers, three fingers! you mother fucker! . This is a very good line which does not come in the book. Eva goes to declare, and she outs her fear of being detained or being keept in prison -my guess- homosexual paragraph, she asks

Stehe ich unter Anklage, Herr Major? Das ist Sache der Staatsantwaltschaft, erwiderte ich. Sollte ich angeklagt werden, auf grund welches Paragraphen kann man mich verurteilen? Wegen Anstiftung zum Mord.

In the movie the character of Magda is seen coming to Eva's house after being released from Prison, here we can read that maybe they had a relationship, at least its clear that they both share a secret or at least a common desire. In the book Marosi finds the name and number of Magda in one of Eva's notebooks, he goes to see her. We get to know the whole story from Magda's perspective. Magda and Eva were university colleges. Magda spent a year in jail, cause she wrote some political poems. Once she comes out of Prison, Magda tries to initiate something with Eva, But Eva doesnt want to, she says:

Einmal war ich in meine Verzweiflung sehr zudringlich und fragte sie, ob sie nur deshalb nicht liebe, weil sie trotz allem glaube, ich sei doch ein Spitzel(...) Nein, Magda, ich liebe dich einfach nicht. versteh das bitte!, Warum gibst du dich dann aber mit mir ab? fragte ich sie., -Weil ich allein bin. Weil man meine Freunde gehenkt oder ins Gefängnis gesteckt hat, und weil es mir noch nicht gelungen ist, neue Verbindungen zu knupfen. Ich muß irgendwem ein paar Worte wechseln. Mit irgendjemandem, der seinen Verstand nicht darauf verwendet, wie teuer gelbe Rüben auf dem Mark sind. Deshalb. Aber gib dich keinen Hoffnungen hin.

There is also this weird quote from Eva in the book were she explainins Marosi, why she can not love him. This dates back to their school time and is remembered by Marosi

Dafür gibt es keine Eklarung, sie lachelte ein wenig. Uns ist es geläufig, daß Sätze so beginnen: Schon die alten Griechen wußten... Nun das wußten selbst die alten Griechen nicht: Wir waren Freunde, weil er er war, und weil ich ich war. Nun zwischen uns beiden ist es umgekehrt. So viel zu dem Thema.

There is a nude scene in the film that does not happen in the book. After Eva quits the magazine (they are censoring all her work so basically she is not publishing anything) Eva moves back to her family to the country side, there Livia comes to visit.

Conclusion

If one only watches the film the rate of liking it is high. I read the book because i though maybe the story in the book is much more rich and well yes, more "lesbian" but thats not the case. Actually as i mentioned before one can only get happy that the authors decided to lighten up the story. In the book the only clear lesbian is Magda

Ich bin lesbisch

she says. And its not like I need a declaration of principles from everyone but the mood in the book follows the old lesbian tragic line. It comes out that the "single" potential lesbian is the ones that dies, then the other lesbian, the out lesbian ends up hidden in a library, alcoholic. On the other hand the character of the "married" woman Livia, the one that chose "the normal path" is still portrayed lost, spoiled and selfish. Is it then a general mysoginistic mood? if all women are bad? I feel the critic goes more to the repressive system. I like that even though Eva plays the single with unclear sexuality, still the affair does not solely falls on her. Livia plays an active role as well. We dont know what Livia feels for Eva, we just know that she does not love Eva enough in order to fight for her/follow her to her home town (like in the film).

Rede jetz nicht. Ich bete deinen Mund an. Er ist weich, ein einziges Flehen, und trotzdem ist soviel Kraft in ihm, wie ich noch nie in einem gefunden habe. Ich liebe dich sagte ich. Kommt zu mir (Eva zu Livia) Ich werde schon einmal kommen

still somehow Livia manages to be morally protected by the fact that she was married, had a male-older-lover and also a baby! (the baby is also missing in the movie)

Wissen Sie, ich hätte mich vor Eva auch dann gefürchtet, wenn sie ein Mann gewesen wäre.(..) Wissen Sie, sie stand alles in allem... irgendwie außerhalb der Gesetze.