The filmmaker and writer looks back on her comedy Men, which made her famous. In it, she had two men talk about feelings and problems, thereby drawing a new picture.
Munich – From the point of view of the filmmaker and author, men in Doris Dörrie’s circle no longer corresponded to classic stereotypes decades before the current gender debate.
“There was already something more ambivalent and fluid that I found far more attractive, and thankfully it’s also become more normal now. For women too,” she told Playboy magazine (April issue), looking back on the 1985 comedy Men with which she made her breakthrough.
The fact that two men – played by Heiner Lauterbach and Uwe Ochsenknecht – talk about feelings and problems was found to be very funny and funny, “because it was almost never seen in the cinema at the time,” she said. “The reason for this lies in the legacy of the Nazi era, when men had to be heroic, and then there was the muteness of the fathers’ generation and the typical taciturn, tough man upbringing of recent centuries. Many men were already very different in the 1980s.” Dörrie, who published the book “Die Heldin Reise” in February, finds typical heroic fuss boring in the cinema. dpa
