Set in Berlin, 1810, the movie tells the story of Heinrich von Kleist, a despondent young poet/dramatist, and his lover Henriette Vogel, the wife of a business acquaintance, in the final stages of their lives.
1969, Berlin, Germany
1995
2 September 1971, Dresden, East Germany [now Saxony, Germany]
1978, Suhl, East Germany [now Thuringia, Germany]
1971
1971
9 March 1979, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
1967
1968, Berlin, Germany
20 October 1979, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
31 July 1956, Bielefeld, Germany
10 January 1975, Bottrop, Germany
26 April 1967, Dortmund, Germany
2001
19 February 1953, East Berlin, East Germany
June 06, 2016
The Austrian director's sixth film is ecstatically original: a work of film-history-philosophy with a digital-cinema palette of acutely crafted compositions.
March 18, 2015
It illustrates, both bluntly and gently, the stultifying trap of male influence.
March 18, 2015
Hausner's film feels authentically quiet and slower-paced for the time period ...
March 26, 2015
Less than propulsive as a narrative, but provocative, instructive, consistently surprising and a kind of slow-motion thriller.
March 18, 2015
It can be a strategically off-putting movie yet one that also steals under your skin scene by scene and through Ms. Schnoeink's slowly revealing performance as an ill-fated heroine turned future biographical footnote.
August 04, 2015
The build-up scenes of talk and philosophising, in salons and sitting rooms, are hypnotic.
November 12, 2015
Austrian director Jessica Hausner has fashioned a formal, feminist, wickedly humorous variation on history.
May 20, 2016
Fatally labors under excessively Teutonic discipline.
March 19, 2015
Despite being inspired by actual events, it all comes off more confounding than tragic or romantic.
March 17, 2015
One thing's certain: This is no swoony love story. It intoxicates all the same.

