My Talk with Florence (2015)

My Talk with Florence 2015 Two Persons One Tape One Interview No Cuts No tricks One of the most brutal and disturbing pieces of oral history Florence Burnier Bauer was born in Paris in 1949 to an upper middle class family with Russian roots Raped by her Granddad at an early age and passed around in secret mens circles, she was hushed by electro shocks in the insane asylum Then she fled to the bohemian hobo lifestyle of the swinging sixties, taking off to a life of crime, bringing up three children on the road Searched by the French police, she thought to find a safe haven in the free loving Austrian Friedrichshof Commune, led by Actionist Artist Otto Muhl That is where hell really began In 1989 Florence was able to escape Her court appearance brought Muhl to jail for pedophilia, rape and orchestrated abuse Her story is a highly unsettling testimonial about a time, known for its social liberalization It is a showdown with counterculture icon Otto Muhl, previous documentaries had only hinted at And a disturbing chronic to a shattered but unbroken life And a ground shaking mirror to the shadows behind the years of the post war European Witschaftswunder, that shows how fascist structures and thinking was able to silently live on in the social underneath, even of the extreme left