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The Dreamed Ones

Directed by: Ruth Beckermann
Runtime: 1hr 29min Year: 2016
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Directed by: Ruth Beckermann
Runtime: 1hr 29min Year: 2016
Country: Austria
Last Screened: Thu 8th Dec 2016

A contemporary romance brings to life the historical correspondence between post-war poets and lovers Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann.

★★★★ “A strangely compelling experience” – The Times

A contemporary romance brings to life the historical correspondence between post-war poets and lovers Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. In the comfortable confines of Vienna’s Funkhaus, two actors read the poet’s famous letters to each other. Slowly but surely, the writers’ intense emotions inhabit the bodies and faces of the two readers, filmed in close-up.

With them, we re-live the aftermath of the Second World War as a pair of young people questioning the concept of love.The resulting film is a brilliant cross between observational documentary and essay film.