No Mercy, No Future

No Mercy, No Future

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms
Produced by Helma Sanders-Brahms
Written by Helma Sanders-Brahms
Music by Manfred Opitz
Harald Grosskopf
Cinematography Thomas Mauch
Edited by Ursula West
Hanni Lawerenz
Bettina Böhler
Production
company
Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion GmbH
Distributed by Basis-Film-Verleih GmbH
Release dates
1 November 1981 (Hof International Film Festival)
Running time
108 minutes
Country West Germany
Language German

No Mercy, No Future (German: Die Berührte) is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms.

Plot

Veronika Christoph, the troubled daughter of uncaring bourgeois parents, has been institutionalized due to her schizophrenia. Without proper psychiatric treatment for her unearthly visions, she prowls the streets along the Berlin Wall at night in search of God, yet settles for the company of strange, exiled men.

Cast

Release

The film was released on DVD by Facets Multi-Media in 2008.[1]

Reception

Thomas Elsaesser, author of European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood, wrote that No Mercy, No Future was a "relative" failure in the commercial and critical aspects compared to Germany, Pale Mother and that the situation "may have led Sanders-Brahms in the direction of the European art cinema."[2] London's Time Out has referred to the film's performances as faultless[3] and it was screened at the 1982 Berlin International Film Festival[4] and won the British Film Institute's Sutherland Trophy Award for 1981. Critic Michael Atkinson praised the film as a "classic, show-it-all acting coup that doesn’t wriggle free of your memory very easily."[5]

References

  1. "No Mercy, No Future". Facets Multi-Media. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  2. Elsaesser, Thomas. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood. Amsterdam University Press, 2005. ISBN 9053565949, 9789053565940. p. 223.
  3. "No Mercy, No Future". Time Out London. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  4. Kennedy, Harlan (May–June 1982). "Berlin 1982 – The 32nd Berlinale Filmfestspiele Assignment in Berlin". Film Comment. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  5. Atkinson, Michael (4 November 2008). "Billy the Kid, No Mercy, No Future". IFC Center, AMC Networks. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
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