Dagmar Manzel - Portrait einer Antidiva (2018)

Dagmar Manzel - one of the greatest actresses of our times. A woman who acts, dances and sings with her heart and soul, who is able to alter and rediscover herself again and again. As a Frankish Tatort commissar the German television has come to love her, her plays at the Deutsches Theater are sold out for months, her success continues as a singer at the Komische Oper and other houses. Since the 1980s she has been an actress for the most notable German directors and has won many important prizes. Nevertheless, Dagmar Manzel from East-Berlin is nothing like a Diva: The director of the Komische Oper, Barrie Kosky, describes her as "the most down-to-earth diva there is". Next to all her fame she has managed to sustain her own freedom, a special devotion to her work and a wonderful sense of humor and view on life. A film dedicated to the sixtieth birthday of this Berliner icon.