The Dreamed Ones

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

89 min

Cast:

Anja Plaschg, Laurence Rupp

Quality:

HD

Director:

Ruth Beckermann

Release:

2016

Country:

Austria

Rating:

8.2