Movie

The Greater Circulation (2005)

• January 1, 2005
• 1h 33m

• Drama

“Love means protecting the solitude of another”

Overview

1908, Paris. Over three fever-dream nights in the Hotel Biron, poet Rainer Maria Rilke encounters the ghost of his good friend, artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died shortly after giving birth to her first child. In response to this haunting, Rilke writes his epic prose lament, "Requiem for a Friend", as a tribute to Paula and to women torn between choosing a life sacrificed to Art or to Motherhood. One hundred years later, three women - a painter, an actress and a dancer - and a theatre director prepare to stage Rilke's "Requiem" in Berkeley California as abstract performance ritual.

Director

Antero Alli

Writers

Rainer Maria Rilke, Antero Alli

Starring

Antero Alli, Thia (Sylvi) Alli, Lloyd Bricken