PETRA KELLY - ACT NOW!
Film - New German Cinema

PETRA KELLY - ACT NOW!

Directed by Doris Metz

Info

Director: Doris Metz
Section: New German Cinema
Country: Germany
Year: 2024
Language: German, English
Version: Original version with English subtitles
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

A world premiere: On the trail of a political visionary.

As a founding member of the Green Party, Petra Kelly played a decisive part in shaping political discourse in West Germany in the 1980s. But who exactly was this person who brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets to protest the stationing of nuclear missiles? Using unreleased footage and interviews from international archives, this film depicts a sensitive yet resolute political visionary who let no one hold her back.

Show calendar
Photocredits: Bildersturm Filmproduktion, Director Photo: Regina Schmenken

Calendar

  • (only P&I)
    HFF Audimax
  • After the film: Q&A with Doris Metz and team

    Rio 1
  • After the film: Q&A with Doris Metz

    Rio 1
  • After the film: Q&A with Doris Metz

    City 1

Meet the director

PETRA KELLY - ACT NOW!

Doris Metz

Doris Metz grew up in Oberstdorf. After studying German literature and political science, she spent ten years as an editor and writer at the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. Her film SCHATTENVÄTER, about the sons of Willy Brandt and East German spy Günter Guillaume, was released in 2005. She and Imogen Kimmel wrote and directed TRANS – I GOT LIFE, a documentary about the lives of trans individuals (FILMFEST MÜNCHEN 2021 Audience Award).

Credits

Screenplay: Doris Metz
Director of Photography: Sophie Maintigneux
Film Editor: Nina Ergang
Composer: Cico Beck
Sound: Ivonne Gärber
Producer: Birgit Schulz
Production Company: Bildersturm Filmproduktion GmbH
Distributor: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih e.K.