Heinrich (1977)

Movie
Original title	Heinrich
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1977
length	125, 133 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Helma Sanders-Brahms
script	Helma Sanders-Brahms
production	Regina Ziegler
music	Archive (Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
camera	Thomas Mauch
cut	Margot Löhlein
occupation
Heinrich Giskes : Heinrich von Kleist Grischa Huber : Ulrike von Kleist, his half-sister Hannelore Hoger : Henriette Vogel Lina Carstens : Servant Riebisch Sigfrit Steiner : Servant Riebisch Heinz Hoenig : Ernst von Pfuel Elisabeth Stepanek : maid Henning Schlueter : Innkeeper Hildegard Wensch : his wife Stefan Ostertag : Dahlmann Sabine Ihmes : Wilhelmine von Zenge And Günter Meisner , Hans Madin , Peter Schneider, Wolf Donner , Peter Fitz , Otto A. Buck , Johannes Ammon , Hilde Sessak , Fritz Lichtenhahn , Erika Dannhoff , Hans Günther von Klöden , Egon Vogel , Rainer Friedrichsen , Ingrid Bzik , Muriel Huber- König , Peter Wagenbreth , Sabine Ihmes , Grete Jochmann

Heinrich is a feature film drama directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms in late 1976 . Heinrich Giskes plays the literary title hero .

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In retrospect, the film primarily recounts the individual late stages of the short life of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811), who sought the absolute, lived through happy and unhappy loves, then fell out with Goethe and against the French conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte fights. In the end, his constant struggles consumed him from within. He remains in a close relationship with his half-sister Ulrike. "The focus of 'HEINRICH' is above all on the restlessness, the search, the fragmentary, the discontinuity in Kleist's biography."

Production notes

Heinrich was shot on 38 days of shooting from May 20 to June 14 and from October 26 to November 23, 1976 in Berlin, Paris, on Lake Brienz, Iseltwald (Switzerland), and in Werder and Löcknitz (GDR). The film premiered in May 1977 during the Cannes International Film Festival . The German mass start was on October 14, 1977 in Berlin, Munich and Mannheim.

Günther Naumann and Götz Heymann were responsible for the equipment and film construction, Barbara Baum designed the costumes. Main actor Giskes, cameraman Thomas Mauch and WDR editor Volker Canaris worked on the script . The manuscript was supported by written notes from Kleists.

Reviews

"'Heinrich' is such a film that proves that plaster busts of poets can also be cast in celluloid."

- Der Spiegel 28/1977

“The unhappy life of the ingenious and romantic poet Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) in a portrayal that is not free from pathos and craft kitsch. Very external as a Kleist interpretation, whereby the metaphysical aspect in Kleist's work and person is hardly considered, but rather his human relationships are in the foreground. Regardless of some revealing details, characterized by an outdated understanding of classical music and formally afflicted with weaknesses; captivating, however, with its luxurious visual design. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Awards

• The film received the Golden Bowl for best production,
• the film tape in gold for the best screenplay (Helma Sanders-Brahms),
• and in Cordoba the Critics' Prize.

Web links

• Heinrich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Heinrich at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich von Kleist Portal
2. ^ Heinrich in the Lexicon of International Films