Directed by:
Valie ExportScreenplay:
Valie ExportCinematography:
Jörg Schmidt-ReitweinComposer:
Gerhard HeinzCast:
Adelheid Arndt, Paul Muller, Rüdiger Vogler, Wolfgang Böck, Alexander Strobele, Regina Fritsch, Adolf Lukan, Traute Furthner, Walter Schreiber, John Ottwald (more)Plots(1)
The Practice of Love may be the most well-known work out of everything the Austrian artists has directed. The protagonist, a woman, swings between two love stories with two different men. She will get to know the real meaning of the mechanisms that articulate patriarchal society, those same mechanisms that make it impossible to have love relationships, understood from the freedom and equality between individuals, beyond the sexual plane. Since it’s impossible to obtain healthy fruits from a tree (the patriarchy) corroded by rot and corruption, VALIE EXPORT uses the usual array of avant-garde metaphors to exemplify this story with a wide political background. (Gijón International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Adelheid Arndt
West Germany
Best movies:
Time Regained (1999)
Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Head Over Heels (2001)
Paul Muller
Switzerland
Best movies:
Marco Polo (1982) (series)
El Cid (1961)
Fiorile (1993)
Rüdiger Vogler
German Empire
Best movies:
Kings of the Road (1976)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Die Kinderklinik (1993) (series)
Wolfgang Böck
Austria
Best movies:
Benny's Video (1992)
The Red Violin (1998)
Crown Prince, The (2006) (TV movie)
Alexander Strobele
Austria
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Via Mala (1985) (series)
Uprising (2001) (TV movie)
Regina Fritsch
Austria
Best movies:
Schlafes Bruder (1995)
Corsage (2022)
The Tobacconist (2018)
Adolf Lukan
Best movies:
Der Bockerer (1981)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Walter Schreiber
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
John Ottwald
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Guenther Nenning
Austria
Wolfgang Kainz
Austria
Kurt Radlecker
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Jürgen Lier
German Empire
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Elisabeth Vitouch
Austria
Joe Berger
Austria
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)