Movie Details
Original Language:German
Production Companies:ARTE, Sender Freies Berlin, Eins54 Film GmbH, Schweizer Fernsehen (FS), Arthaus Musik
Cast & Crew
O
Oliver Herrmann
Director
O
Oliver Herrmann
Writer
H
Heinrich Heine
Writer
Dichterliebe
DirectorOliver Herrmann
WritersOliver Herrmann
Plot
In Dichterliebe (2000), a film by Oliver Herrmann based on Robert Schumann’s song-cycle of the same name, the boundaries between song recital and reality blur. The chosen setting – a night club in the centre of Berlin – creates the intimate, dark salon atmosphere in which the songs might also have been performed at the time they were written. Returning to origins in this way, the film departs from the concert atmosphere in which song-recitals are normally performed nowadays.
