Lenz

Lenz

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 24, 1971

Runtime

2h 10m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Lenz

Production Companies

Barbara Moorse Workshop, Literarisches Colloquium

Director

George Moorse

Description

Film adaptation of the short Büchner story of the same name, which tells of the stay of the psychotic Sturm und Drang poet Lenz in the home of the Alsatian priest and philanthropist Oberlin. The poet, whose pathological hallucinations are becoming increasingly unbearable, hopes for help from the gentle clergyman. But Oberlin, too, knows no advice; he regards his friend's illness as God-given.