Yella

Yella survives her enraged and desperate exhusband’sattempt to kill them both by drivingthe car off a bridge. She then finds out that thejob she was promised does not exist. In thishopeless situation, with Germany-after-the-wallas backdrop, Yella meets cold venture capitalistPhilipp and joins his world of ambitious andruthless business. Yella is captivated by theopportunities of big money that are presentedto her with the move to the West. But escapeinto new glory seldomly lasts: soon Yella’s pastshows up, embodied in her lasts: ex-husband.German director Christian Petzold depicts adirty industrial world, ravaged by ambition andblind capitalism. Through the eyes of a womanwanting more, we meet victims of personaland professional structures. Questions of guilt,death and loneliness are all perfectly weighed into the stoic Yella – named after the youngmother in the Wim Wender’s 70’s feature “Alicein the Cities”. Nina Hoss, the actress playingYella, was awarded for the role at the BerlinFilm Festival in 2007.

Face2Face:
Tuesday 20 November
SAGA 20.00
WITH: Christian Petzold (director)
MODERATOR: Stig Björkman (journalist)