Yesterday Girl

Alexander Kluge's film, which criticises German social systems, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1966. It tells the story of a young woman, Anita G. - the daughter of Jewish parents from Leipzig, who has fled the GDR, but feels as alienated in the Federal Republic as she did in the GDR. She commits petty theft, becomes pregnant by a serious official, volunteers to go to prison, has to give up her child and, before the court, has to submit once again to criteria that are alien to her.