Where to Watch Making of a Prostitute (1971) in the US

What it's about

15 year old Sophie escapes from an orphanage to get away from the authoritarian rule of the nuns who run it. On the street she doesn't find freedom but a pimp who picks her up and makes her a prostitute.Visually the movie goes beyond the limits. One explicitly shown rape scene follows the other. Sophie's body is dragged around, beaten, raped and dragged around again. You get only a view glimpses on her personality hidden behind that surface.The movie swims on the sexploitation wave that flooded German cinema in the late 60s but it goes beyond a cheap arousement. It's comparable to Ulrike Meinhof's "Bambule", that shows the fate of runaway girls forced into sex work. Meinhof's movie was on TV in May 1970. A few months later Meinhof joined the RAF terror group to fight a society that produced fates like Sophie's. The end of this movie might be seen as a comment on this development. It deliverers for sure the "and storm break loose" urge for violence that overshared German history in the decade to come.

Cast and crew

Director

Gustav Ehmck

Writer

Gustav Ehmck, Christian Rolf

Starring

Gerhild Berktold, Axel Schiessler, Werner Umberg

Details

Release date

Apr 2, 1971

Language

German

Country

West Germany

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