Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to Switzerland, where she hopes to find a cure.
Acting
Nadja Tiller's descent from wit to raw fragility.
Direction
Thiele traps you in Georgia's unraveling subjectivity.
Director
Rolf Thiele
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1959 West German cinema was obsessed with female containment—this predates 'The Snake Pit' European response.
Tiller was typecast as 'tragic beauties' after this; she called Georgia her 'exorcism I couldn't escape.'
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