Lieselotte Rau

Film

★ 5.8

1983

Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist

The film interweaves three layers: the centre is Kleist's play "Penthesilea". Like from a distance Kleist observes the relationship beween man and woman, when he transfers into mythical Greece what in his time became a problem for him in Prussia - and remains to be a problem also for us. The director's associations during the work form the second layer. Reality and fantasy blend to an imaginary biography of Kleist, the third layer. At the end of the film Kleist is identical with his title character Penthesilesa.

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Acting (8)

Land der Väter, Land der Söhne

Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist

Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats

Das Großstadtpony

Rollenbilder im Wandel der Jahrhunderte

Don Carlos - Infant von Spanien

Hermann und Dorothea

Prinz Friedrich von Homburg