Edda Chiemnyjewski, a freelance photographer with a small daughter, is tackling her daily life, looking after the home, child and work. She works with a group of female photographers, for whom she is documenting the city of Berlin. As part of this fragmented daily life, among the host of things that need resolving everyday, is the following question: when (and how) can (and must) a woman learn the running on the public and political matters of a state? This phrase is borrowed from the writing of Lenin. The title, The Allround reduced personality is an ironic reference to the concept prevalent in the German Democratic Republic of the "Generally evolved socialist personality". And it aims to be a contribution to the reason why woman so rarely succeed in realising their ambitions.

Helke Sander starts her career on 1962-1963 and she is immediately regarded as one of the new big names in directing. In 1973 together with film director Claudia von Aleman she organizes the first European women’s film festival. In 1974 she founds the “only European feminist film magazine”, entitled Frauen und Film and becomes its publisher, editor and author until 1982. Sander was Professor of Film at Hamburg, she publishes occasional articles and essays, the novel Oh Lucy. Retrospectives and festivals in America, Asia, Australia and Europe have shown her films.