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:
1788: Charlotte von Lengefeld, the daughter of an impoverished noble family in Thuringia, has returned from Weimar to her hometown, Rudolstadt– mainly to the delight of her unhappily married sister, Caroline of Beulitz. The two girls had once vowed to share everything. One day, Friedrich Schiller, who has been expelled from Württemberg, appears in Rudolstadt. The two sisters take their oath seriously and begin a love triangle with Schiller. However this lifestyle turns out to be fragile. Dominik Graf’s film is a mix of documented fact and fiction; a private utopia can be just as difficult to achieve as the political situation unfolding in the background – the French Revolution.
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