Actress, director and screenwriter Margarethe von Trotta Photo: picture alliance/dpa
By Sebastian Bauer
Margarethe von Trotta films the life and, above all, loves of the famous author with actress Vicky Krieps.
THE STORY: The Austrian Ingeborg Bachmann (Vicky Krieps) is the author of the moment when she meets her equally successful Swiss colleague Max Frisch (Ronald Zehrfeld) in Paris in 1958. The two writers become a couple. But Ingeborg Bachmann and her productivity are suffering more and more under the imperious macho Frisch. The emancipation is a feat of strength and only completed by the writer’s journey into the desert.
THE DIRECTOR: The film adaptation of strong women’s biographies is the brand core of the films by Margarethe von Trotta (“Hannah Arendt”).
THE STARS: Like the director of Trotta, Vicky Krieps (“Corsage”) is also subscribed to strong, nonconformist women. Ronald Zehrfeld from Berlin played in “The Silent Classroom”.
BG RATING: The film proves that even successful artists are not immune to the abysses of couple relationships, but it doesn’t reinvent the wheel either.
BEAR CHANCE: The jury could definitely like the director and the leading actress.
EVENTS: 20.2. 12.30 p.m. Zoo, 4 p.m. Verti, 26.2. 5.30 p.m. HdBF