The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head…

Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring “Freak” Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout.

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

The notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising “gold, love and adventure” to all who come aboard her…