FRG 1977 | A report by Edith Marcello (former Schmidt), Peter Nicolay, Renate Heil, Henrietta Loch, Regine Heuser, Harald Stief | Production: ZDF | Colour | digital | 44 min | italian, french, danish, german OV with german SUB

Feminist street theatre campaigns in Frankfurt and Padua; the cover of Patti Smith's Horses on the shelf of the Munich women's bookshop; excerpts from RÉPONSE DES FEMMES by Agnès Varda and TAKE IT LIKE A MAN, MADAME! by Danish collective Røde Søster (Red Sisters); the legendary album by the Flying Lesbians on a table at the Frauenoffensive publishing house... all this is introduced by a short digression on the first women's movement. The amount of solidarity-based insight into the historical momentum of the women's movement that Edith Marcello packs into this 44-minute ZDF report in 1977 is fascinating. Over and over, groups speak out in women's centres and initiatives – and later, we hear from workers in a self-managed sewing factory in Italy. This look at the European South is characteristic of Marcello's work biography. Italian feminists sing an anthem from the movement that frames the report: "We women look at ourselves, we each know the lives of the others. There are more and more of us; we want our freedom and the courage to fight against what is normal. We want the strength to live how we want, and the power to be ourselves". (Gaby Babić, 2023)