Bernd Höltz

Il tentativo di riformare lo spettacolo circense ereditato dal padre, porta la trapezista Peickert ad adottare nuovi metodi. Ma i cambiamenti si scontrano con la realtà, con gli antichi ideali della stessa, sino a attentare a quel che del circo Peickert amava. Così sospende l'inaugurazione del suo progetto e viene assunta in televisione. Scopre che per cambiare il sistema servono piccoli e concreti passi.

Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that he takes in this civil war...

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter work, seemingly assembled from leftover footage from the longer film, continues the story of the circus owner Leni Peickert after she first abandoned her idea of a radical circus in favor of a job in television. It opens where the previous film left off, at a TV station where Leni and her friends have gathered as employees, attempting to infiltrate the corporate establishment with their own revolutionary ideas.

Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking.

Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra.