Absolute Poet - Friedrich Hölderlin
52min French version
Synopsis
September 11th, 1806, the poet Friedrich Hölderlin is forcibly abducted from his then home in Homburg and brought to a mental hospital in Tübingen. There he is treated according to the traumatising methods of the time, then declared incurable. His remaing 36 years of life he spends isolated in a room in Tübingen. Taking the questionable forced abduction as a starting point the film recounts the uncompromising life path of this world-famous poet and traces his political radicalisation against the background of the French Revolution. A story about extremism, yearning and identity.Cast and Crew
- Director Hedwig Schmutte, Rolf Lambert
- Producer Rolf Lambert
- Director of Photography André Götzmann
- Actor Thorsten Hierse
- Narrator Anna Thalbach (Anna Thalbach)
- Editor Gunther Kreis, Manfred Linke
- Score President Bongo, LOPAZZ
- Animation Ali Soozandeh
Original Languages
German
Production Company
Along Mekong ProductionsPlöck 54 , 69117 Heidelberg
Phone: +49 6221 162033
info@alongmekong.comhttp://www.alongmekong.com
Links / Reference
TRAILER
vimeo.com/385500405
DVD German
absolutmedien.de/film/4075/FRI...
www.hedwigschmutte.de/
alongmekong.com/deutsch/hoelde...