Movie Details
Original Language:German
Production Companies:Sender Freies Berlin, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin e.V.
Cast & Crew
W
Werner Krenn
as Friedrich Hebbel
B
Brigitte Raimers
A Man Aglow
Audience Score
1 hr 30 minDrama
Plot
Vienna, March 18, 1863: the poet Friedrich Hebbel, weakened by fever, spends his fiftieth — and final — birthday confined to bed. In feverish reverie, he recalls his life and work. The two blend with each other as well as with the present. A demanding reflection, filmed mostly in monochrome images, on this "ardent man" (a description by Eduard Mörike) and his work.
