Red sun

«Thomas is hitchhiking from Hamburg to Munich. There he first goes to the Take Five nightclub, where he meets his former girlfriend Peggy (Uschi Obermaier). Because he doesn't have a place to stay, she takes him with her to the flat share she shares with Sylvie, Christine and Isolde. Thomas doesn't know that the four women committed a series of murders out of hatred for the men and have sworn to kill their lovers by the fifth day at the latest. In addition, the four are preparing a bomb attack.»Cinema«Director Rudolf Thome didn't need much more than this lurid premise to design Rote Sonne a fascinating late sixties fantasy that oscillates weightlessly between Nouvelle Vague reminiscence and pop art amateur theater play . Sixties icon Uschi Obermaier as the seductive communard Peggy and the unmistakable Marquard Bohm in the role of the designated love victim Thomas ensure the minimum of plot in the highly stylized dance can be summarized quickly. The staging that Thome provides for this deserves far more appreciation, as it is peppered with timeless gender-specific schemes and allusions to gender-themed works by his film colleagues at the time, which make it worth seeing even 50 years later.” Morticia Zschiesche, Ray Film Magazine, August 2020