Rote Sonne

I do not know how to describe this awful German mess from 1970. All of the actors apear to be comatose. Thomas is a man with no apparent source of income who runs into an ex-girlfriend named Peggy. Uschi Obermaier is the lead and was one of Jimi Hendrix's girlfriends in 1968. The skinny woman lives with four other women and they kill their mates after just a few dates.

Thomas crashes at their pad and drinks all day. The women make a bomb and set it off in some fields as a warm-up to greater things.

The old VW Beetle shows up throughout the film and the leads drive one partially into a body of water.

One of the worst movies that I have ever watched. Do not repeat my mistake.

The dialogues are ridiculous but not in a funny way, the story is absolutely unbelievable and the actors are lousy. I watched the whole film once but not another time for sure

A dropout playboy waster Marquard Bohm reunites in Munich with a friend he knew in Hamburg Uschi Obermaier ; but she is now a member of a sort of Feminist Red Army Faction type outfit

But at first he does not cotton on it seems

This is a very moody piece imbued with the times when the Left in Germany grew teeth as they realized that marches and speeches and asking nicely for a more egalitarian world was getting them nowhere; add to that the rise of steely feminism (think Valerie Solanas S. C. U. M. kinda vibe); all this need be understood to grasp the mood and direction and the minds of the protagonists and intent of the director in Red Sun ....

The four women are all exceedingly beautiful Mara temptresses; the words femme fatale are the ones they would need to enter on their collective CV

Marquard Bohm has the face and demeanour of a degenerate; I have recently seen 2 other films with him from that time and this can be also said there; and he does it really well; acted or not 🙂🙃😉

The final scenes are really poignant and probably say something deep about the Masculine and the Feminine .... or not :...

If you are a fan of 60/70s Gegenkultur definitely drop in ...

The film is okay, not outstanding. It helps that Uschi Obermaier plays the female lead and that the strange (conspiratorial) plot has some period color that I like.

To avoid any kind of spoilers, I can only tell you about the cars in this film ... they are beautiful and waterproof ... the nightclubs ... they are even better than the cars.

Only the girls' apartment, I have some problems with that. This strange building is a bit shabby like a mafioso's den. Not at all like one should imagine the accommodation of successful gals in the upcoming Olympic city.

If you are looking for other (maybe more realistic) German feminist-expressionistic cinema, I rather recommend "Strohfeuer" aka "A Free Woman" by Volker Schlöndorff.

This movie is very funny indeed. Maybe it's an attempt at film noir with feministic background that has gone terribly wrong. Maybe the comic elements have been intended. Maybe it's a political statement with nods to Godard. The plot depicts a group of young woman that decide to kill their boyfriends if they insist on a relationship lasting longer than five days. Actually it's pretty entertaining, although all characters are talking and acting in a VERY weird way, resulting in some german reference books calling it a science fiction-movie set in the future, although there are no hints in the plot that justify such an assumption. Anyway, the guy who wrote the dialogue MUST have been on drugs: "If the condition to change society is a change of the weather, then we have to change the weather. This is not impossible." You get the idea, although this may have been a very bad translation.