Literature Film Series
Celebrating German literature and authors, the literature film series accompanies the Bay Area Book Festival. The series features two wonderful screen adaptations of Goethe and Schiller classics, the brilliant “Me and Kaminski” by director Wolfgang Becker, as well as the popular “Inkheart” written by Cornelia Funke.
PLOT:
Germany in the 90s: Art critic Sebastian Zöllner is on the hunt for glory. He wants to write a tell-all book about Manuel Kaminski, a once prominent, now almost forgotten painter, pupil of Matisse and friend of Picasso, who’s retreated to a chalet in Graubünden and has long been blind. Zöllner tracks him down, unscrupulously invades his life, steals some of his late paintings, and entices him to travel to Belgium, where Kamiski's childhood sweetheart Theresa, who’s long been assumed dead, is thought to live. On the way, Zöllner begins to suspect that the old man might have the advantage over him.
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