Ulrike's Brain 2017

Synopsis:

Referencing sixties B-movies like "They Saved Hitler’s Brain" and "The Brain That Would Not Die", Ulrike’s Brain finds Doctor Julia Feifer (Susanne Sachsse) arriving at an academic conference with an organ box. Inside the box: the brain of Ulrike Meinhof, which was saved by the authorities along with the brains of the three other leaders of the RAF after their deaths in Stammheim prison. Doctor Feifer can communicate telepathically with Ulrike’s brain, which is directing her to lead a new feminist revolution. To that end, she is searching for the ideal female body to transplant Ulrike’s brain into. At the same time, her arch-rival, Detlev Schlesinger, an extreme right-wing ideologue, arrives at the conference with the ashes of Michael Kühnen, the former German neo-Nazi leader and infamous homosexual who died of AIDS in 1989. When the two Frankenstein’s monsters of the extreme left and the extreme right meet, chaos ensues.

Directed by: Bruce LaBruce
Written by: Bruce LaBruce
Release date: 2017-02-11
Runtime: 55 minutes
Cast:
Gertrud Stammheim
Gertrud Stammheim
 
Susanne Sachße
Susanne Sachße
Doctor Julia Feifer 
Jonathan B. Johnson
Jonathan B. Johnson
 
Saskia Timm
Saskia Timm
 
Stefan Sandrock
Stefan Sandrock
 
Florian Töbe
Florian Töbe