Gruppenbild mit Dame (1977) Directed by Aleksandar Petrovic
History / Drama
aka: Group Portrait with Lady
Film Synopsis
Leni Gruyten's life has been as turbulent and unpredictable as her own wayward character.
To save her from the Nazis, Leni, a bourgeois Jew living in Germany, is placed in the
care of a convent of nuns. During the war, she has an affair with her cousin, who
is later shot for refusing to join the German army. She then meets Boris,
a Russian prisoner-of-war who works in a cemetery - another affair that is destined
to end badly...
In his letters to his friends and family, Franz Kafka gives us a rich self-portrait that is surprisingly upbeat, nor the angst-ridden soul we might expect.