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'Ulrike's Brain' is a 2017 German-Canadian drama film directed by Bruce LaBruce. It was screened in the Forum section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.[[http://www.telerama.fr/cinema/festival-de-berlin-2017-dix-talents-sous-les-projecteurs,153778.php "Festival de Berlin 2017 : dix talents sous les projecteurs"]. 'Telerama.fr', February 9, 2017.]
The film, described by LaBruce in advance interviews as a sequel of sorts to his early film 'The Raspberry Reich',[[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/26/bruce-labruce-moma_n_7138054.html "Bruce LaBruce, Queer Filmmaker, Gets His Own Retrospective At NYCs MoMA"]. 'Huffington Post', April 26, 2015.] stars Susanne Sachsse as Julia Feifer, an academic who possesses and can communicate with the brain of German Red Army Faction radical Ulrike Meinhof.[ She is seeking to transplant the brain into a new body so that she can resurrect Meinhof and revive her goal of socialist and feminist revolution, but her plans are complicated when her archrival Detlev Schlesinger, an extreme right-wing ideologue, arrives with identical plans for the surviving brain of German neo-Nazi leader Michael Khnen.][
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The film, a spoof of the 1960s B-movie subgenre of mad scientists preserving human brains, is thematically linked with LaBruce's feature film 'The Misandrists', which premiered at Berlin's Panorama program in the same week.[[http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2017/06/55718.html "Auerirdische, Lost in Politics"]. 'Dschungel', February 9, 2017.] Although both films were made in Germany, 'Ulrike's Brain' received some production funding from the Canada Council for the Arts while 'The Misandrists' did not.
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