Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Mezzanine and Stephanie LaCava present: Rudolf Thome's *RED SUN* (*Rote sonne*). 1970, Germany, 89m. Followed by a conversation with Stephanie LaCava, author of *NYMPH*, moderated by film critic Sarah Fensom. ∆ In Rudolf Thome’s vibrant artsploitation film *RED SUN*, Thomas (Marquard Bohm), a lazy and peculiarly attractive man, has left his wife and daughter to reconnect with ex-girlfriend Peggy (Uschi Obermaier), who lives in a house with four stylish and beautiful women. But these women operate under a deadly pact: they must kill any romantic conquest after five days, putting Thomas at risk. Released the same year the Red Army Faction was founded, Thorne's hypnotizing fantasy portrays an all-female revolutionary cell with pop aesthetics and a cooled-out pace, and it remains an eccentric stand-out from the German New Wave movement. In German with English subtitles. A Radiance Films release. Special thanks to Bret Berg (American Genre Film Archive). ∆ **Stephanie LaCava** is a writer based in New York City. Her debut novel *The Superrationals* was published by Semiotext(e) in 2020. I *Fear My Pain Interests You* was published to global acclaim in 2022. Her latest novel, *NYMPH*, is forthcoming this October. **Sarah Fensom** is a writer living in Los Angeles.