Geschlechterkampf - Das Ende des Patriarchats

Marga, played by Margarita Breitkreiz, is a 42-year-old actress who seems to have already passed the zenith of her career. After initially pursuing a career in theater at the country's major stages (Volksbühne Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Maxim Gorki Theater), it is becoming increasingly difficult for her to find work. Not only in theater, but also in film, it seems to be becoming more difficult to get roles as she ages and as a woman, and moreover as a woman with a migrant background. When she does get offered roles, they are invariably ones that play on her Russian heritage as a cliché. As a result, she increasingly has to deal with employment agency staff, retraining programs, and other job offers. In the process, it becomes increasingly clear to her how unfair and gender-specific the theater and film world is. But even in a society that seems to be strongly influenced by patriarchal structures, she constantly comes up against her own limitations, or rather those of women in society. Until she decides to step out of the victim role and fight back. The film GESCHLECHTERKAMPF – Das Ende des Patriarchats (Gender War – The End of Patriarchy) uses the biography of the main character to explore gender issues, particularly in art, culture, and film, in a thesis-like arrangement. It draws on feminist quotes and positions from gender literature, integrates dialogue passages with gender theorists, cultural scientists, and feminists, and attempts to do justice to the topic in the exaggerated form of farce.