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In Love with Lou – A Philosopher’s Life

In Love with Lou – A Philosopher’s Life

Drama | German | 113 minutes

Company

The Playmaker Munich


Cast & Crew

Director

Cordula Kablitz-Post

Producers

Cordula Kablitz-Post, Helge Sasse, Gabriele Kranzelbinder

Writers

Cordula Kablitz-Post, Susanne Hertel

Cast

Katharina Lorenz, Nicole Heesters, Liv Lisa Fries, Katharina Schüttler, Alexander Scheer, Matthias Lier, Phillipp Hauß, Julius Feldmaier, Merab Ninidze


Trailer

pharos.de/international/catalogue/detail-projects/in-love-with-lou-a-philosophers-life/


Synopsis

When legendary writer Lou Andreas-Salomé meets young German philologist Ernst Pfeiffer she begins to write her memoirs with him.

Born 1861 in St. Petersburg she vows to never to fall in love and to pursue intellectual perfection. The philosophers Paul Rée and Friedrich Nietzsche want to marry her, but she manages to keep at least Rée as a friend with whom she lives and studies in Berlin. When Lou meets the young, still unknown writer Rainer Maria Rilke she finally falls in love and breaks his heart. As a student of Sigmund Freud she recognizes the trauma of her youth

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Completion Year

2016


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