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Ballhaus Naunynstraße

Blues for Mrs.

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The film shows Mrs. wandering through Berlin at night, preparing for performances and on stage. Black women in the blues, artists from the 1910s to the 1950s, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, are quoted and embodied – until historical references are made right up to the present day.
Eloquent in prose, poetry, spoken word and blues, Mrs., this blues personality, explores the relationship of black women to beauty and pain. More

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