The Whole of Life

Barbara, a fifty-year-old lesbian whose lifespan has taken her through correction homes, mental hospitals, prisons and bouts of prostitution, approached Bruno Moll suggesting that she made a film of her life. Moll agrees and hires an actress, Serena Way. To interpret episodes in Barbara’s past. Barbara has in mind a Hollywood-style bio starring an actress on the order of Susan Hayward dramatically telling her story of a life ruined by bourgeois standards. The result is a semi-documentary mixing black and white segments of Barbara and Serena discussing the project with color scenes depicting little stories from the 1950’s, the heyday of bourgeois existence.

• Release date
• January 28, 1983
• Runtime
• 112 min
• Director
• Bruno Moll

Cast

G

Guerino Faoro

M

Marie-Louise H.

B

Brigitte Hengartner

B

Bruno Moll

N

Nathalie Stöckli

N

Nelly Thiel

C

Claudia Vitelli

T

Thomas Vitelli