The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter work, seemingly assembled from leftover footage from the longer film, continues the story of the circus owner Leni Peickert after she first abandoned her idea of a radical circus in favor of a job in television. It opens where the previous film left off, at a TV station where Leni and her friends have gathered as employees, attempting to infiltrate the corporate establishment with their own revolutionary ideas. This radicalism is somewhat undercut by the way that Kluge deliberately shoots down the low-cut blouse of one of these young revolutionaries, the camera eyeing her cleavage and then panning down, to the text she's reading, and then back up again, finding her sexuality ultimately much more interesting than her radicalism.
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The Indomitable Leni Peickert Cast
The Indomitable Leni Peickert Crew
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Department |
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Alexander Kluge as Director. He was 38 (now 92) years old
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Directing |
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Alexander Kluge as Writer. He was 38 (now 92) years old
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Writing |
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Thomas Mauch as Director of Photography. He was 32 (now 87) years old
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Camera |
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Hannelore Hoger as Writer. She was 28 (now 83) years old
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Writing |
