Directed by:
Ralf SchmerbergCinematography:
Darius Khondji, Robby Müller, Franz Lustig, Ralf Schmerberg, Daniel Gottschalk (more)Cast:
Meret Becker, Luise Rainer, David Bennent, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jürgen Vogel, Lars Rudolph, Anna Böttcher, Carmen Simone Birk, Jean Denis Römer, Smudo, Isabel Tuengerthal, Birgit Stein (more)Plots(1)
A collection of nineteen poems by authors such as Hermann Hesse, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Georg Trakl and Heiner Müller are performed and recited. The viewer is taken on a trip through life: its precious experiences and possibilities, expressions of love and friendship, the suffering of change, and the fear of aging, disease, loneliness and death. Prominent actors like Meret Becker, Luise Rainer, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jürgen Vogel, David Bennent, appear in front of the camera. Thirteen renowned cinematographers like Darius Khondji, Robby Müller, Nicola Peccorini and Franz Lustig filmed around the world: on the beach at Rio, at the foot of the Himalayas, in Iceland and during the Easter processions in Spain, as well as in Berlin. (DOK.fest München)
(more)Cast
Meret Becker
West Germany
Best movies:
Comedian Harmonists (1997)
Life Is All You Get (1997)
Munich (2005)
Luise Rainer
German Empire
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The Gambler (1997)
David Bennent
Switzerland
Best movies:
The Tin Drum (1979)
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Fog in August (2016)
Klaus Maria Brandauer
German Empire
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Out of Africa (1985)
Mephisto (1981)
Jürgen Vogel
West Germany
Best movies:
The Wave (2008)
Life Is All You Get (1997)
Die Kirschenkönigin (2004) (series)
Lars Rudolph
West Germany
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
No Place to Go (2000)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Anna Böttcher
West Germany
Best movies:
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Goethe! (2010)
The Peppercorns and the Curse of the Black King (2017)
Carmen Simone Birk
Best movies:
Wie Feuer und Flamme (2001)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Ein starkes Team (1994) (series)
Jean Denis Römer
Germany
Best movies:
Generation War (2013) (series)
Free Country (2019)
Wolves of Berlin (2009) (series)
Smudo
West Germany
Best movies:
The Crocodiles (2009)
Vorstadtkrokodile 2 (2010)
The Crocodiles: All for One (2011)
Isabel Tuengerthal
West Germany
Best movies:
Lotta & die alten Eisen (2010) (TV movie)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Papa auf Probe (2013) (TV movie)
Birgit Stein
Best movies:
No Place to Go (2000)
Atomised (2006)
Angels Don't Sleep Here (2002)
Herman van Veen
Netherlands
Marcia Haydée
Brazil
Best movies:
The Dancer and the Thief (2009)