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The Future of Emily is a 1984 West German drama film directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms. Barbara Kosta, author of Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature and Film, states that The Future of Emily, along with Laputa, "pursue[s] traditional narrative patterns" compared to Germany, Pale Mother, and "lapse[s] further into awkward melodrama." Christian Schröder, author of Hildegard Knef: Mir sollten sämtliche Wunder begegnen, wrote that the film appears "very French" and "very German" at the same time and compared it to the films of Éric Rohmer.
Original Release
05/31/1985
US Release
12/17/1986
Cast
Name | Character |
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Brigitte Fossey | Isabelle |
Hildegard Knef | Mutter Paula / Paula |
Ivan Desny | Vater Charles / Charles |
Hermann Treusch | Friedrich |
Camille Raymond | Emily |
Mathieu Carrière | |
Caroline Ruprecht | |
Helma Sanders-Brahms |
Directors
Writers
Helma Sanders-Brahms, Sylvie Ponsard, Suzanne Schiffman
Cast
Name | Character |
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Brigitte Fossey | Isabelle |
Hildegard Knef | Mutter Paula / Paula |
Ivan Desny | Vater Charles / Charles |
Hermann Treusch | Friedrich |
Camille Raymond | Emily |
Mathieu Carrière | |
Caroline Ruprecht | |
Helma Sanders-Brahms |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Margaret Ménégoz | Executive Producer |
Helma Sanders-Brahms | Producer |
Christoph Holch | Producer |
Ursula Ludwig | Producer |
Barbet Schroeder | Producer |