The read
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
It’s not uncommon for a film to have a moving love story at its core. Yet this particular set-up is unusual. The lovers here are Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, both important representatives of post-war German-language poetry. The story of the relationship between the Austrian and the Jew from Czernowitz is told through their nearly 20-year correspondence (1948–1967). Or, more precisely, by a young woman and a young man reading from their letters in a studio in Vienna’s venerable Funkhaus.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes91%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Ruth BeckermannDirector
- Ina HartwigWriter
- Ruth BeckermannWriter
Cast
- Anja PlaschgIngeborg Bachmann
- Laurence RuppPaul Celan
Stills
Themes
woman director