My Life Is A Soap Opera"

1996/97 dogfilm for ZDF/ARTE, DV/ Betacam SP, length: 35 min.

"My Life Is A Soap Opera" was part of the thematic evening for ARTE "Soap or life is a soap opera"

Three women are being portrayed whose lifes are determined by the phenomenon of "Soap Opera" in totally different ways. Carola is beaming herself straight out of Sachsen directly into her favourite serial "Dallas" or just talks with "Roseanne". Ewa who looks like Pamela Anderson would love to play Laura Palmer in "Twin Peaks". Melodie takes on both roles as a psychoanalyst and as an actress and analyses the dramatic production, the craving for the "high" and the drama we put into our lifes ourselves. Each of these three women lives in her own personal universe where sometimes reality bumps into their serial parallel world and contours start to blur. Each portray has its own formal touch to pay tribute to the different individual universes of the three women.

"My Life Is A Soap Opera / Part 1: Carola"

"My Life Is A Soap Opera / Part 2: Ewa"

"My Life Is A Soap Opera / Part 3: Melodie"

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