Our Corpses Are Still Alive(1981)

Our Corpses Are Still Alive is a provocative staged documentary by Berlin filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim. Five women who came of age during the 1930s are confined to a small apartment for a week, their vastly different worldviews on full display. The group spans from a lesbian-feminist journalist to a devoted Hitler supporter, creating an explosive social experiment. Von Praunheim orchestrates their interactions to expose the ideological rifts that defined a generation, examining how personal conviction and historical circumstance shaped these women's lives. The film blurs the line between documentary authenticity and theatrical provocation, forcing viewers to confront uncomfortable truths about complicity, resistance, and survival during one of history's darkest periods. Tense, unflinching, and deliberately confrontational, the work stands as a bold interrogation of memory and morality.