It’s not uncommon for a film to have a moving love story at its core. Yet this particular set-up is unusual. The lovers here are Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, both important representatives of post-war German-language poetry. The story of the relationship between the Austrian and the Jew from Czernowitz is told through their nearly 20-year correspondence (1948–1967). Or, more precisely, by a young woman and a young man reading from their letters in a studio in Vienna’s venerable Funkhaus.
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Anja Plaschg, Laurence Rupp
Crew: Ruth Beckermann (Director), Ruth Beckermann (Producer), Johannes Hammel (Director of Photography), Dieter Pichler (Editor), Lisa Olah (Casting), Andreas Donhauser (Production Design)
Country: Austria
Language: Deutsch
Studio: Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion, ORF
Runtime: 89 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 18, 2016
IMDb: 2.6
Keywords:woman director
