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Talent & The Self: Mira Gittner
„At the recently concluded Kolkata Film Festival, Romain Maitra found an incredible
actress in the diminutive Mira Gittner from Munich. If you happened to have seen her
in Roland Reber’s new film, The Dark Side of our Inner Space, screened at the
recently-concluded Kolkata Film Festival, the strange acrid edge of her acting talent
could not have eluded you. You might have felt in retrospect the dark cry in her
visage as though she had crunched her teeth on the worm in the apple of our desire.
We saw her exposing the raw fibres of our psychological constitutions, to glare at the
hidden contents of the forms that we are, almost with the intensity of a Klaus Kinski
face in Aguirre, the Wrath of God….”
(Romain Maitra, Star File: Talent & The Self: Mira Gittner, The Statesman, India 2003)


