And so Astray finally leaves Puerto Rico to return home, concluding La Habanera, which
was the last film Detlef Sieck, or Douglas Sirk, made in Germany. The next film he directed
after this was made in Holland in 1939, and his first Hollywood film, Hitler's Madmen,
was made in 1942.
Sarah Leander, meanwhile, stayed on in Germany. Sirk had made this Swedish-born actress-singer
into a very popular star, and right through the period of the war, she continued to make
German films, which were widely shown all over the occupied countries of Europe. After
1942, her career was interrupted for several years. She attempted a comeback in the early
1950s, but with little success. She was 37 when tonight's film was made.
Well next week on Cinema Classics, I have for you a beautiful Polish film about the
experiences of a young man, just as the Second World War was about to commence. Farewells
is a moving, lovely picture, the second to be directed by Wojciech Has, and it was made
in 1958. That's next week on Cinema Classics. And now, stay viewing for our second classic
of this evening, Michelangelo Antonioni's The Girlfriends, coming up in a few moments.
Beginning Sunday and concluding Monday, Burnt Bridges, the true story of a remarkable woman
who gives up her aristocratic background to become a social democrat and one of the first
emancipated women of her time.
I can't do it.
The only privilege that women still have in Germany is prostitution.
Have you ever thought about demanding a higher salary? You have none of nothing.
The tragic story of Lily Brown, Burnt Bridges begins Sunday night at 8.30 SPS.
The canopy of a tropical rainforest houses the most complex community of life on Earth,
but surprisingly, almost no research has been done here due to the difficulty of access.
Biologist Donald Perry is one man who has ventured into the treetops.
At the time I had a fear of heights, a normal fear of heights, and boy, the first time I
was sweating, I was sweating like crazy. I was sweating like crazy. I was sweating like
the height, not from the heat out here. Once I got over the fear of heights, oh, it was
exhilarating. Oh, beautiful, beautiful, the treetops.
Discover the canopy community in the treetop exploration, 7 o'clock Wednesday, SBS.
Welcome back. And now for an early film from one of Italy's most important filmmakers,
Michelangelo Antonioni. Lea Miche, The Girlfriends, was made in 1955 and is adapted from a short
book by Cesare Pavese called Tradonna Sole, About Lonely Women, which was published in
a book of medium length novels called La Belle Estate.
Pavese was a writer interested in the despair in everyday life. He found what he called
the business of living unsatisfactory, and he ended his life in suicide. Suicide is a
theme of this story. The film begins with an attempted suicide in a Turin hotel room,
and that's how Clelia, who's come from Rome to set up a fashion house, meets Rosetta,
the girl who attempted suicide, and her circle of friends. As the film's title suggests,
this is primarily a film about the relationships between the girlfriends, who include the divorced
and somewhat waspish Momina, played by Yvonne Fernot, the flirtatious Mariella, and the
Maria Panciani, and Nene, Valentina Cortese, a successful artist married to Lorenzo, Gabriella
Fersetti, the man Rosetta's in love with. Rosetta is played by Madeleine Fisher, and
Clelia, the outsider in this drama, is Eleonora Rossi Drago. Antonioni has turned Pavese's
story into a grim satire on the vacuous lives of these people, and the director and his
cameraman, Gianni Di Venanzo, make much of the settings, a windswept beach, the fashion
house itself, the hotel, apartments, and so on. It develops gradually into a moving and
powerful drama of love and betrayal. Let's watch it now, Michelangelo Antonioni's The
Girlfriends.
Sunday, live from Tokyo, the Toyota Cup. Title haulers AC Milan of Italy, winners of the
European Cup, clash with South American champions Olympia of Paraguay. Can Olympia's young stars
make a name for themselves on the world stage? All will the experience of Dutch and Italian
World Cup stars reaffirm AC Milan's world club supremacy. The Toyota Cup, Sunday SBS.
On Tuesday, an eyewitness account of the horrific conditions which existed in the first Soviet
labor camp.
The innocent, convicted, and exiled were sent to the Solovki. The camp had a primitive totalitarian
power with its own government and its own attributes. The Solovki Power, a shattering
documentary, 8.30 Tuesday on The Cutting Edge.
On Sunday, an SBS documentary that looks at Cyprus 16 years after the Turkish invasion.
At a time when borders throughout Europe are crumbling, this may be the last frontier.
A people divided not by culture, but by the strategies of politics.
The
urban stories of Cyprus are people divided.
Seven o'clock Sunday on SBS.
So I need to inform my family and friends abroad about the
old COVID-19 rules.
You should ask a COVID-19 station or farm,
and then tell your family to send gifts made of
food or animals.
Most things, although safe abroad,
but brought with a scar of disease,
risk for cancer and animal in this region.
Because they do not have the ability to naturally immune,
the consequences may be extremely harmful.
Protect this country,
where you and this cute animal are living,
you should be careful,
because the gift will send you to Australia safely.
The canopy of a tropical rainforest
houses the most complex community of life on earth.
But surprisingly, almost no research has been done here
due to the difficulty of access.
Biologist Donald Perry is one man
who has ventured into the treetops.
At the time I had a fear of heights,
normal fear of heights,
and boy the first time I was sweating from the height,
not from the heat out here.
Once I got over the fear of heights,
oh, it was exhilarating.
Oh, beautiful, beautiful, are the treetops.
Discover the canopy community in the treetop exploration.
Seven o'clock Wednesday, SBS.