The legendary writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé is leading a lonely existence in Göttingen 1933 threatened by the Nazi regime. When German philologist Ernst Pfeiffer enters her life, she begins to write her memoirs with him. Born 1861 in St. Petersburg she vows never to fall in love and to pursue intellectual perfection. She meets Paul Rée and Friedrich Nietzsche and against all conventions of time, Lou and Rée live and study together in Berlin. Lou attains her goal of an intellectual and free spirited life, but when she meets the young and still unknown writer Rainer Maria Rilke she falls in love. After they break up she has numerous affairs. Lou begins to attend Sigmund Freud’s lectures, becomes a well-esteemed psychoanalyst and finally recognizes the trauma of her youth.
Director
Cordula Kablitz-Post
Version
German (OV)
with English subtitlesProduced by
Cordula Kablitz- Post, Helge Sasse, Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Cast
Nicole Heesters, Katharina Lorenz, Liv Lisa Fries, Julius Feldmeier, Merab Ninidze, Alexander Scheer, Katharina Schüttler
Genre
Drama
Running Time
113 min.
Release
June 30, 2016
Festivals
Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney 2016 | Shanghai International Film Festival 2016 | Festival des deutschen Films Paris 2016 | Festival des deutschen Films China 2016 | German Film Fest Australia | Tbilisi Film Festival 2016 | Berlin & Beyond Filmfestival San Francisco 2017 | Jewish Film and Cultural Festival of Lisbon 2017 | Cleveland Int’l Film Festival 2017 | Seoul International Agape FF 2017 | German Language Film Fest in Ottawa 2017 | Semaine du Cinéma Allemand de Dinard 2017 | Socially Relevant Filmfestival New York | Palace of the Arts (Hungary) | Oxford IFF
Awards
Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney - Audience Award | Semaine du Cinéma Allemand de Dinard 2017 - Le Bretzel d’Or | Socially Relevant Filmfestival New York - Grand Prize Narrative Feature
Year
2016
Status
completed
credits not contractual
