Yesterday Girl (1966)

Director
Alexander Kluge

Main cast
Alexandra Kluge; Günter Mack; Hans Korte; Werner Kreindl; Eva Maria Meineke

Genres
Drama

Description
Yesterday Girl is an acerbic, deliriously fractured, incisive, and darkly comic satire on a young German woman (and archetypal embodiment of the postwar generation), Anita G.'s (Alexandra Kluge) search for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery


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