Kopfstand, Madam! (Headstand, Madam!). 1966–67. West Germany. Directed by Christian Rischert. Screenplay by Rischert, Christian Geissler, Alfred Neven DuMont. With Miriam Spoerri, Herbert Fleischmann, Heinz Bennent. 82 min.
Married with a young daughter, a 30-year-old woman yearns to return to her working life as a translator, to the confusion and consternation of her husband, a prosperous engineer. A formally stringent adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.