Kinemathek – Art House Cinema
Social commentary packaged for a broad audience, aired on Mother’s Day: *Die Unverbesserlichen* is a portrait—marked by gentle tragicomedy and a bitter undertone—of a family from what was then West Germany’s middle class, with three children who are nearly or already adults, clearly set in Berlin.
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›Die Unverbesserlichen‹, BRD 1965, Regie: Claus Peter Witt
Inge Meysel adapted her leading role from the hugely successful play *Das Fenster zum Flur* to play a super-capable, know-it-all mother who wants to control her loved ones, prompting them to try to break free from her.
- West Germany 1965, Director: Claus Peter Witt, DCP, 81 min, German with subtitles
Introduction: Jan Gympel, film scholar
IN GERMAN
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Dates
July 2026
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