Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist

Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 25, 1983

Runtime

2h 24m

User Score

50%

Original Title

Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist

Director

Hans Neuenfels

Description

The film interweaves three layers: the centre is Kleist's play "Penthesilea". Like from a distance Kleist observes the relationship beween man and woman, when he transfers into mythical Greece what in his time became a problem for him in Prussia - and remains to be a problem also for us. The director's associations during the work form the second layer. Reality and fantasy blend to an imaginary biography of Kleist, the third layer. At the end of the film Kleist is identical with his title character Penthesilesa. (www.filmgalerie451.de)