
The dancer Lena Schmidt wins ten thousand mark at the lottery. With the money she leaves for a fashionable resort.
Julius Urgiss
Germany

The first time I saw Arme Lena I was nursing burnt espresso in a 24-hour repertory house that smelled of celluloid and wet wool; the projector’s clack felt like coins rattling in a tin cup—appropriate, because this is a film about how quickly coins sprout wings. Director Julius Urgiss never achieved Lang-scale immorta...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Otto Rippert

Otto Rippert
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" The first time I saw Arme Lena I was nursing burnt espresso in a 24-hour repertory house that smelled of celluloid and wet wool; the projector’s clack felt like coins rattling in a tin cup—appropriate, because this is a film about how quickly coins sprout wings. Director Julius Urgiss never achieved Lang-scale immortality, yet here he mints a parable of liquidity that feels eerily post-2008: capital as aphrodisiac, bankruptcy as aftershave. Visual Alchemy on a Shoestring Shot entirely on dayli..."

