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Century of Women

Documentary about five women from different countries and cultures, all around 100 years old, who tell the stories of their eventful lives. Haydée Arteaga Rojas was born in Cuba in 1915, lived through the revolution, founded a school and became an inspiration to freedom-loving Cubans. Tamar Eshal, a Jew born in London in 1920, fled from the Nazis to Palestine, worked in the Israeli Foreign Ministry after the founding of the state, and even engaged in espionage for a time. Ilse Helbich, born in Austria in 1923, began her writing career when she was over 60 and published her first novel when she was 80. From India comes yoga teacher Nanammal Amma, who attributes her long life mainly to her daily excercises. The German-Turkish sociologist Nermin Abadan-Unat, born in 1921 and the only woman still alive at the time of the film's release, was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her research on "Migration to Germany."