Beloved Sisters

Beloved Sisters

Die geliebten Schwestern | Dominik Graf, 2014
Germany/Austria | German and French with English subtitles | Format: DCP | 170 minutes

North American Premiere

Q&A with actress Hannah Herzsprung and producer Uschi Reich on September 30

Romantic sentiment runs high but aristocratic decorum holds sway in this beautiful and thoroughly modern rendering of the real-life 18th-century love triangle involving German poet Friedrich Schiller (Florian Stetter) and two sisters of noble birth, Charlotte (Henriette Confurius) and Caroline (Hannah Herzsprung), whose strikingly intense relationship and profound mutual devotion verge on symbiosis. As Schiller’s star rises in the philosophical-literary world of Weimar Classicism, with Charlotte at his side, the married Caroline chooses to stay close by—with dramatic consequences. Sisterhood is finally the most passionate and wrenching form of love in the aptly titled Beloved Sisters, and the deeply felt performances of Confurius and Herzsprung are hard to forget. Meanwhile, there’s a fresh, bracingly contemporary sense of energy, a relaxed pace and a down-to-earth directness to director Dominik Graf’s unfussy re-creation of ultra-formal 18th-century town-and-country life. A Music Box Films release.

Travel support provided by German Films

Series: NYFF52 Main Slate

Venue: Walter Reade Theater, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center