Story
DOCUMENTARY The German Jew Ruth Westheimer rose to become a cult sex therapist in the USA: a warm portrait of a humorous taboo-breaker. When Holocaust survivor Ruth Westheimer began broadcasting her radio show “Sexually Speaking” at the beginning of the 1980s, a whole country pricked up its ears. No-one had ever spoken about sex so intelligently, uninhibitedly and wittily – and with an unmistakably German accent that soon became her trademark. Born in Frankfurt, Westheimer emigrated to the USA in the mid-1950s and is still an icon of anti-prudishness, a bubbly 91-year old full of vitality who can look back on an eventful life story.
Director
RYAN WHITE (*1982) works as a producer and director for various US TV companies. Among his best-known works are the HBO production The Case Against 8 (2014) and the Netflix series The Keepers (2017).Trailer
Info
Ask Dr. Ruth
Documentary Feature
English
Transatlantik//FF2019
USA
2019
100 min
OV with German subtitles
Ryan White
Rafael Marmor, Ryan White, Jessica Hargrove, Christopher Leggett
David Paul Jacobson
Helen Kearns, Rejh Cabrera
Blake Neely
Daniel Dulitzky
NFP marketing & distribution GmbH
Magnolia Pictures
Delirio Films; in association with Tripod Media
Marc Klocker, NFP marketing & distribution GmbH: m.klocker@nfp.de