Movie

Dichterliebe (2000)

• December 31, 2000

• Music

Overview

In Dichterliebe (2000), a film by Oliver Herrmann based on Robert Schumann’s song-cycle of the same name, the boundaries between song recital and reality blur. The chosen setting – a night club in the centre of Berlin – creates the intimate, dark salon atmosphere in which the songs might also have been performed at the time they were written. Returning to origins in this way, the film departs from the concert atmosphere in which song-recitals are normally performed nowadays.

Director

Oliver Herrmann

Writers

Oliver Herrmann, Heinrich Heine

Starring

Robert Hunger-Bühler, Natascha Osterkorn, Christine Schäfer