Anita flees her home in East Germany for its democratic cousin to the west. But life on the other side proves as challenging as it was in the Communist Republic--and often just as oppressive. Released in 1966, the darkly comic YESTERDAY GIRL was a groundbreaking film in postwar German cinema, winning a Special Jury Prize at the 1966 Venice Film Festival.

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital - German
Subtitles - English
Clips - NEWS FROM '66 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL:
1. Featuettes - 1. BRUTALITY IN STONE
2. AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE

Distributor Notes: As the flagship film of the "young German cinema" movement, Alexander Kluge's first feature, Yesterday Girl, paved the way for the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Produced immediately after the Oberhausen Manifesto, Yesterday Girl is an experimental, youth-oriented satire with a fragmentary story about an unruly heroine named Anita G. (Alexandra Kluge, the director's sister and frequent collaborator.) Like any postwar German youth worth her salt, Anita wants to break free of the collective baggage left by her parent's generation, but her flee from East to West Germany only confirms that conservatism and scarred memories thrive on both sides of the wall. A nominee for the Golden Lion and winner of a Special Jury Prize at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, Yesterday Girl made it clear the waning German film industry was headed for a renaissance.

Source: Facets Multimedia Inc.

Alexandra Kluge: 
Gunther Mack: 

Alexander Kluge: German Director/Novelist