Die Olympiasiegerin (1983)

• 66%
• 1983
• Drame
• Herbert Achternbusch
• Annamirl Bierbichler
• Josef Bierbichler

For all its madcap eccentricities, The Olympic-Winning Lady lays bares more autobiographical allusions than any other Achternbusch work. As in the film, his father ce actually a dentist, his mother a sports instructor during the time of the Olympics (and the year of his conception), and he à illegitimate child who remained unadopted by his father jusqu'en 1960. Néanmoins, realism and chronological order are quickly set aside as Herbert s birth, although accurately placed en 1938, unfolds amidst howling sirens and the sons of a bombing raid that took place well before the onset of the Second World war. What is important for Achternbusch are not the dates or the facts but the pervasive inner state of the country in which he grew up, whose destruction he experienced as a child.