Melting Ink
Synopsis
In 2020, the author Anatol Regnier published Jeder schreibt für sich allein, a book that examines the life and work of writers in Nazi Germany. In collaboration with Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieband (script), and Felix von Boehm (production) have adapted this book into a polyphonic essay film of the same name JEDER SCHREIBT FÜR SICH ALLEINE (intl. title: Melting Ink) – almost three hours in duration – that takes a meticulous look at the contradictory biographies of Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper. What made critical authors like Kästner, whose books were burned, decide not to emigrate after the fascist seizure of power? Which now-respected artists actually sympathized with the Nazis at the time? What internal and external contradictions were posed by the experience of living and working under the regime, not only for authors but also for institutions like Berlin’s Akademie der Künste? The film makes extensive use of interviews with the likes of editor, author and publisher Florian Illies, art critic and historian Julia Voss and film producer Günter Rohrbacher. Running all the way into the present, it thematizes the trust placed in art and artists – and, ultimately, the complicated relationship between aesthetic positions and political actions. [Critics Week]With: Anatol Regnier, Florian Illies, Géraldine Mercier, Albert von Schirnding, Christoph Stölzl, Henrike Stolze, Günter Rohrbach, Gabriele von Arnim, Julia Voss, Willy Kristen, Wendelin Neubert, Carlo Paulus, Simon Strauß, Clemens von Lucius, Lena Winter
Festivals/Awards
2023Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin
Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International – Zukunft Deutscher Film
5 Ostthüringer DOKFILMWOCHEN, Gera
17 FSFF – Fünf Seen Filmfestival
Cast and Crew
- Director Dominik Graf
- Producer Felix von Boehm
- Screenwriter Anatol Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieb
Original Languages
German
Production Company
LUPA FILM GmbHKeithstr. 5, 10787 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 960666931
info@lupa-film.comhttp://www.lupa-film.com
Links / Reference
Piffl Medien
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PRESS
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