Films - Absolute Poet - Friedrich Hölderlin

Photo 2019 Along Melong Productions

Absolute Poet - Friedrich Hölderlin

Photo 2019 Along Melong Productions

Absolute Poet - Friedrich Hölderlin

Photo 2019 Along Melong Productions

Absolute Poet - Friedrich Hölderlin

Photo 2019 Along Melong Productions

Absolute Poet - Friedrich Hölderlin

Film Info

Germany 2019 | 90 min. Director: Hedwig Schmutte, Rolf Lambert

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Production Company

Along Mekong Productions

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69117 Heidelberg Phone +49 6221 162033 http://www.alongmekong.com

links / references

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vimeo.com/385500405

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www.hedwigschmutte.de/

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Absolute Poet - Friedrich Hölderlin

90min German version DVD available
52min French version

Synopsis

September 11th, 1806, the poet Friedrich Hölderlin is forcibly abducted from his then home in Homburg and brought to a mental hospital in Tübingen. There he is treated according to the traumatising methods of the time, then declared incurable. His remaing 36 years of life he spends isolated in a room in Tübingen. Taking the questionable forced abduction as a starting point the film recounts the uncompromising life path of this world-famous poet and traces his political radicalisation against the background of the French Revolution. A story about extremism, yearning and identity.