{"id":37469,"date":"2019-12-17T19:41:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T19:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/?page_id=37469"},"modified":"2023-08-04T22:29:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:29:32","slug":"character-one-susan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/en\/character-one-susan\/","title":{"rendered":"Character One: Susan (2018) by Tim Lienhard | Darling Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Character One: Susan<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Diagnosis: schizo-affective and bipolar. What does that mean? Director Tim Lienhard<\/strong> gives Susan a stage, portrays her as a film diva and combines her magnetizing screen presence with her relentless openness to an opulent, captivating performance.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/h3>\n

Susan, in her early 50s, is a very attractive woman. But the half Italian, born at the beginning of the 60s in Berlin, is ill. She is bipolar and has a schizoaffective disorder.\u00a0She proudly pronounces to the camera that she has lived a thousand lives, but at the same time she emphasizes that her life ended at the age of 11. Because at that age she was sexually abused.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”37541″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”37523″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Despite a good school performance and the attempt to take up a bourgeois profession, she never led an ordinary life. The queen of the Berlin techno clubs of the 90s, once a drug dealer and globetrotter, still defends her independence until today.\u00a0This has its price, because Susan lives on social welfare in Berlin and has a caretaker.\u00a0She is an alcoholic and finds herself in a co-dependent relationship with a much younger man.\u00a0A rape during the time of the shooting releases states of fear in Susan. But she speaks openly and offensively about everything that has happened to her. So this film is also a highly topical examination of sexism from the perspective of a beautiful, abused woman.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Her suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder is also a subject of the film. With her impressive talent to perform, to make herself the center of the film and to do so in a very strong, self-confident and reflective way, Susan captivates the filmmaker Tim Lienhard, whom she met 25 years ago at the Loveparade<\/strong> in Berlin.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]He stages her to a lament by Georg Friedrich H\u00e4ndel<\/strong> and contemporary music by the pop band\u00a0Kid OK<\/strong>, thus unfolding excitingly surprising views of a fascinating woman. “Character One: Susan<\/strong>”\u00a0is the portrait of an extraordinary woman.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”37494″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

About Tim Lienhard:<\/h3>\n

Born in 1960 in the Black Forest (Villingen), he graduated from high school in Constance and studied theatre, film and television sciences, German phililogy and history at the FU Berlin<\/strong> and the University of Cologne<\/strong>.\u00a0Since 1983 Tim Lienhard has worked as a TV reporter for WDR<\/strong> and ARD<\/strong> and for over 25 years for Arte<\/strong>. He has produced over a thousand magazine reports for German and French television and well over 70 television features\/documentaries.\u00a0His first independently produced and self-financed feature film “One Zero One – The Story of Cybersissy & BayBJane<\/strong>” was released in 2014, with an official cinema release and corresponding media attention. This 90-minute documentary about two drag-queens was shown at over 50 international film festivals (German premiere at the Hofer Filmtage<\/strong> 2013) and received several international awards for best documentary in 2013 and 2014.\u00a0With “Character One: Susan<\/strong>“, Tim Lienhard has continued to maintain his complete independence from clients and financiers.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”37531″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”37535″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1561286315715{margin-top: 15px !important;background-color: #efefef !important;}”]