GoetheKino|GoetheCine
Director: Timm Kröger, colour, 80 min., 2013/14
1929: The music teacher Paul receives a letter from his old friend and fellow student Otto, who, in the meantime, has become a notable composer. After his marriage failed, he retreated to a secluded cabin in the forest. Now he wants Paul to come visit him. When Paul, his wife Anna and his friend Willi arrive, Otto is nowhere to be found. The first search bears no results. The missing Otto suddenly shows up, doesn’t say a word, sleeps with Anna and then disappears again. Paul believes to have traced his old friend to an island, but he remains missing. The Council of Birds is a still, poetic film, which plays a fascinating, yet not always clear game, by using themes such as “the forest”, “genius and madness” and “art and nature”.
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