Schlöndorff's more recent films “feature characters in moral conflict who are spooked by their pasts, uncertain of their futures, and unable to control their impulses and their fates” (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers). In The Legend of Rita Schlöndorff offers a gripping study of a West German terrorist and a realistic picture of everyday life in East Germany. For Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau) and her comrades, the seventies represented a time when justice and love were worth fighting for. But years later, as their movement fractures, Rita opts to go underground and begins a new proletarian life in the East. She forms an intense friendship with cynical, hard-drinking Tatjana (Nadja Uhl), a fellow outsider as eager to escape her old existence as Rita is to embrace her new one. Magnetic performances garnered a shared Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival.