Misery and Fortune of Women

Alternate title(s): Women’s Misery, Women’s Happiness
Foreign Title: Frauennot—Frauenglück
Date: January 01, 1929 to December 31, 1929
Dates Note: 1929
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Place of Origin: Switzerland
Languages: German
Color: B&W
Silent: No
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Sergei Eisenstein: Films That Shook the World
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Made in Switzerland by cinematographer Eduard Tisse and “supervised” by Eisenstein, Misery and Fortune of Women is a treatise on the need for legal abortions at a time when two million European women each year sought to end their pregnancies clandestinely. The first, narrative half of the film—beautifully made in classic Soviet montage style—tells of women forced by the self-righteous medical establishment to resort to brutal illegal abortionists. The second half is a documentary on proper medical treatment of women, though a Constructivist joy in the modern makes even these supposedly benign health workers and their marvelous machines seem formidable.

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