And Nietzsche cried (film)
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| German title | And Nietzsche wept |
| Original title | When Nietzsche Wept |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Pinchas Perry |
| script |
Irvin D. Yalom (novella), Pinchas Perry |
| production | Pinchas Perry |
| music | Sharon Farber |
| camera | Georgi Nikolov |
| cut | David Jakubovic |
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Nietzsche Wept is an American Independent - film from the year 2007 . Directed by Pinchas Perry . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Irvin D. Yalom from 1992.
As in the novel, which is set in 1882, real facts and fiction are mixed: Friedrich Nietzsche was actually friends with the later psychoanalyst Lou Salomé and made her two marriage proposals, the rejection of which made him think of suicide. The fact that Salomé then arranged Nietzsche's treatment for his constant strong migraines by the Viennese doctor Josef Breuer is just like the treatment itself a fiction. Breuer's scientific collaboration with the younger Sigmund Freud, on the other hand, is reality, as is the case with the patient Bertha Pappenheim (pseudonym chosen for the case description: Anna O. ).
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The 40-year-old doctor Josef Breuer in Vienna, respected throughout Europe , was asked by the self-confident young Russian Lou Salomé, then 21 years old, to help Friedrich Nietzsche, who was at risk of suicide, by curing him of his obsession for her . Salomé's request to Breuer must remain secret. Breuer agrees and wants to treat Nietzsche free of charge by proposing that Nietzsche's physical problems be cured for a month in his sanatorium, while Nietzsche should help Breuer to solve mental problems. Breuer does not say a word about Salomé visiting him. After initially reluctance, Nietzsche goes into this. The two now have therapeutic discussions on a daily basis. During the course of the month, Breuer will then, as he explains to Freud, his younger colleague and friend, change roles and, in turn, discuss Nietzsche's emotional problems.
Breuer's problem, as he admits to Nietzsche, is that on the one hand he leads a picture book and family and on the other hand he cannot forget the sexual temptations that emanated from his patient Bertha and regrets not having made her his lover. Bertha's first name reminds him, as Nietzsche asked a question, of his mother, who died when he was three years old and was left with a strong feeling of abandonment. In a one-hour hypnosis that Freud performs on Breuer at his request, Breuer dreams of leaving his wife and children and choosing Bertha, who lives in another city. He finds her in the arms of another to whom she assures that he will forever be the only man in her life; She had beguiled Breuer with exactly the same words. In the dream Breuer works as a waiter on the Danube; when Freud recognizes him, he flees towards the water and is saved by Freud. In the end, Breuer remorsefully returns to his house and to his family, whom he never left in the real world of film.
Nietzsche gives Breuer to the lonely and unconnected, who could never and never wanted to do anything with women. A visit to the brothel triggers a hysterical attack in him. He bangs his head against the mirror until it sinks to the floor, bloody; Breuer comes to the rescue as a doctor. Nietzsche invokes his life lie that he was uncompromisingly only interested in philosophical knowledge. He gave lectures with a grand gesture, even if only two or three students were listening. He wrote books that found a publisher but hardly any readers. Nietzsche proves to be an empathetic listener for Breuer's emotional problems and also has proposed solutions; it is just that he cannot cope with his own problems. Ultimately, he has to admit to Breuer that his glorification of loneliness and lack of ties melts when Breuer (the two are already by you) calls him his good friend.
In between, Lou Salomé looks for Nietzsche in the sanatorium in Vienna, where he stays incognito and is refused any information. She finds the raptured man standing on a piano, who conducts an imaginary orchestra - it plays music by Richard Wagner - and does not notice her.
Nietzsche declines Breuer's invitation to Nietzsche to stay longer with him privately, since they have now become friends. Thanks to Breuer, he discarded suicide and feels strong enough to live alone again, especially because the new loneliness is self-chosen. Nietzsche leaves to turn to the writing of his famous work Also Spoke Zarathustra , which he told Breuer about. Breuer remained active as a doctor in Vienna for another three decades, but would never use talk therapy again.
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The film is set in Vienna and its surroundings and was shot in Russe in Bulgaria, which is also on the Danube. The architecture of the late 19th century is as present in the reality of Russia as it is in Vienna; prominent Viennese buildings can of course not appear. The dialogues between Nietzsche and Breuer or Breuer and Freud correspond to scientific demands and were not trivialized. The temptations to which Josef Breuer is subjected by Lou Salomé and Bertha Pappenheim are shown very clearly without pornography. The film makes extensive use of numerous works of classical music (including Brahms , Beethoven , Chopin , Schubert ). The film contains numerous, sometimes seemingly surreal dream scenes (e.g. Breuer falls in the forest through a shaft hidden under leaves many meters deep on his mother's coffin, he rapes a patient and raves about Bertha's breasts). An opera scene (from Carmen by Georges Bizet ) was filmed in the Ruse Opera House.
Reviews
“[...] Even if [the plot] initially seems cumbersome, Yalom tells it as excitingly as a thriller. The great minds of that time deliver brilliant speeches. The book immediately casts its spell on every reader - even if they have never read anything by Nietzsche. The film adaptation of Pinchas Perry is not equal to the imaginative and excellently written original, but gives an impression of the greatness of the book. "
Web links
- Nietzsche Wept in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Offside: Power, Massacre and Manipulation (accessed on October 11, 2010)