CYANKALI
Germany 1930. Dir: Hans Tintner
Cast: Grete Mosheim, Herma Ford, Nico Turoff. 91 mins. 35mm. Silent with German intertitles.
With musical accopaniment
![Nach dem Film folgt ein Vortrag der Berliner Künstlerin annette hollywood über queere Mutterschaft. Mit [anderkawer] 1928 ist annette hollywood auch in der aktuellen Sonderausstellung WEIMAR WEIBLICH vertreten. Ihre Arbeit stellt eine detektivische Spurensuche nach historischen Zeugnissen und Familiengeschichten queerer Menschen dar.](https://www.dff.film/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Cyankali_pic_01.jpg)
Germany 1930. Dir: Hans Tintner
Cast: Grete Mosheim, Herma Ford, Nico Turoff. 91 mins. 35mm. Silent with German intertitles.
With musical accopaniment
The silent film, already equipped with some sound sequences, is a socio-critical manifesto against the abortion paragraph 218, which was still in force at the time, and an impressive example of the proletarian film of the Weimar Republic. Based on the play by Friedrich Wolf, it depicts the fate of the unemployed stenotypist Hete, who, in the midst of a struggle for material survival, decides to terminate her pregnancy. When doctors refuse to perform the procedure, Hete falls in with a quack who gives her cyanide, with disastrous consequences.
With WEIMAR WEIBLICH. Women and Gender Diversity in Modernist Cinema (1918-1933), the DFF presents an exhibition on women in front of and behind the camera in Weimar cinema through November 12. During Pride Month in June, the accompanying program at the DFF cinema is dedicated to films that advocate physical and sexual self-determination.
