‘A Women’s Story’: New UFA Documentary Production For RTL+
Subject: Society
Country: Germany
Category: Project
UFA Documentary and We Are Era have produced the documentary “A Women’s Story” for the streaming provider RTL+. In it, actress and activist Natalia Wörner talks with strong, confident women about equality. In addition to the international stars Helen Mirren and Andie MacDowell, German activists including Jutta Allmendinger, Iris Berben and Maria Furtwängler have their say.
What’s the status of equality and equal opportunity in Germany? Where can we find overt and covert discrimination against women in daily life? What gender stereotypes stand in the way of equal treatment? In “A Women’s Story”, a co-production of UFA Documentary and the RTL Group subsidiary We Are Era for the German streaming provider RTL+, actress and activist Natalia Wörner sets out on a documentary journey. She meets with strong, self-confident women who fight for their equality, rights and liberties and who can be considered role models and pioneers of an entire movement.
In addition to the international stars Helen Mirren and Andie MacDowell, some of the most important German pioneer activists have their say in “A Women’s Story”: Jutta Allmendinger, Iris Berben, Thelma Buabeng, Maria Furtwängler, Ursula Karven, Louisa Dellert, Janina Kugel and others talk about formative experiences, rebellion against prevailing conventions, and “encourage a change of era”. RTL+ will present the documentary starting March 8. Sandra Schaede and Robert Kummer directed the documentary, and Schyda Vasseghi wrote the script.
“This work is dear to my heart,” said Natalia Wörner, actress and creative producer. “The film aims to encourage and show the ways we can pass the baton to young women to conquer the terrain they have a right to – supported by a whole chorus of strong women.” Using Super 8 material from her childhood, which shows why she is so intensively involved with this topic, it becomes a very private answer to many unanswered questions that are still being asked. Producer Gwendolin Szyszkowitz-Schwingel added: “If we manage to get just a few viewers to change their thinking, we’ve already won. And we have again taken a small step towards a new social order. Women used to be more powerful, and they will be again.”
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