Under the Pavement Lies the Strand

Under the Pavement Lies the Strand German Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand is a 1975 West German blackandwhite drama film directed by Helma SandersBrahms. This lowbudget film was her first feature film. Prior to making the film, SandersBrahms had little to no distinct contact with the womens rights movement.

Wendy Ellen Everett and Axel Goodbody, the editors of Revisiting Space Space and Place in European Cinema, wrote that this film became a cult film in the German feminist movement. The films main actress and actor won the Deutscher Filmpreis Filmband in Gold in 1975 and it was recently called one of SandersBrahms best films by Salon critic Andrew OHehir. PopMatters critic Stuart Henderson has also referred to the film as a revelation and a fascinating and important film. The Philadelphia City Paper stated that the film was hailed as a cult film for the feminist movement and noted that it is still being screened in repertory cinemas and it has also been called a film still of vital interest.

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