A young man from the countryside goes to Berlin, where he is robbed by hoodlums. Completely penniless, he meets a prostitute with whom he falls in love, but the pimp wins. In a hopeless situation, he decides to take back what is his by force.
This experimental film is constructed from still photos of the violent protests in response to then-US President Ronald Reagan’s visit to (West) Berlin in 1982 and illustrations by the French artist Gustave Doré.
Flug durch die Nacht, shot during Ilona Baltrusch's studies at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin - DFFB, explores the relationship between language and image. The film follows the two protagonists, Gretel Kemeny and Martin Peter, through 1980s nocturnal Berlin.
A female student laments the role of women in the student movement. Her boyfriend fears that she might soon reject socialism and turn into a feminist. He reaches for the book in which Lenin's position on women's issues is presented in the most detail, Clara Zetkin's "Memories of Lenin".
