- Country: West Germany
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1972-11-01
- Director: Volker Schlöndorff
- Writers: Volker Schlöndorff , Margarethe von Trotta
- Language: German
- Stars: Margarethe von Trotta , Friedhelm Ptok , Martin Lüttge , Walter Sedlmayr , Georg Marischka , Konrad Farner , Ruth Hellberg , Nikolaus Vesely , Ute Ellin , Maria Brunner
- Runtime: 100 min
- Awards: 2 nominations
- AKA: Мгновенная вспышка , Szalmaláng (Hungary) , Vapaa nainen (Finland) , Fogo de Palha (Brazil) , Fuego de paja (Spain) , A Free Woman (United States of America) , Feu de paille (France, French Republic) , Strohfeuer , つかの間の情熱 (Japan) , Fuoco di paglia (Italy) , Strohfeuer , Słomiany ogień (Poland) , Fogo de Palha (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , En glimt av frihet (Sweden) , Summer Lightning
- Plot: A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.
- IMDB:tt0069325
A Free Woman Cast · · · ALL
Volker Schlöndorff
Director
Margarethe von Trotta
Elisabeth Junker
Friedhelm Ptok
Hans-Helmut Junker
Martin Lüttge
Oskar Merz
Ruth Hellberg
Mutter Elisabeth
Georg Marischka
Walter Sedlmayr
Wilhelm Grasshoff