Cinema/history/feminism: intersecting discourses in Rosa Luxemburg.(Movie Review)

Margarethe von Trotta's 1986 film Rosa Luxemburg tenders a cinematic portrait of a historically significant female revolutionary, single of the central figures of 20th hundred socialism. The film attempts to reclaim this figure as historical make subordinate as feminist subject, and as a cinematic subdue for contemporary audiences for whom socialist and feminist history has been not to be found or suppressed and for whom cinema is articulated within mainstream conventions. In its recuperation of Luxemburg as a historical subdue in its interpretation of her as a feminist bring under rule and in its cinematic