Cast
Edith Clever, Elke Petri, Willem Menne, Johanna Hofer, Gerhard Bienert, Jutta Lampe, u.a.
Team
Director
Peter Stein
Script
Botho Strauß
Director of Photography
Michel Ballhaus
Producer
Regina Ziegler
Info
Broadcaster
SFB, WDR, HR
Genre
TV Play
Format
16 mm, colour
Length
126/136 Min.
Big and Small
1979

“Where to? – No reply.” The pairing of a question screamed into an empty room and the depressed reply flung back at herself describes most clearly the condition of the central figure in this piece. Her name is Lotte, a woman in her mid-30s who is constantly on the move and yet permanently stuck in the same place. In ten stages Lotte completes the transformation from a lonely German tourist in Agadir bewitched by a deep voice to an angel rummaging through garbage, wandering restlessly around our cities and believing herself to be one of 36 just people, known by nobody, upon whom this world is founded.