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Lou Andreas-Salomé

Lou Andreas-Salomé

Cordula Kablitz-Post
The ailing writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé is leading a lonely existence in Göttingen. When German philologist Ernst Pfeiffer enters her life, she begins to write her memoirs with him.
Born 1861 in St. Petersburg she vows never to fall in love and to pursue intellectual perfection. She meets philosophers Paul Rée and Friedrich Nietzsche, against all conventions of time, Lou and Rée live and study together in Berlin. Lou attains her goal of an intellectual, free spirited life, but when she meets the young, still unknown writer Rainer Maria Rilke she falls in love. After they break up she has numerous affairs. Lou begins to attend Sigmund Freuds lectures, becomes a well-esteemed psychoanalyst and finally recognizes the trauma of her youth.
Technical Data
Running time: 113
Format: Cinemascope
Language spoken: German
Category Biography
Production year: 2016
Credits
Director(s):
Writer(s): Cordula Kabitz-Post, Susanne Hertel
Cinematography: Matthias Schellenberg
Editing: Beatrice Babin
Key cast: Katharina Lorenz, Nicole Heesters, Liv Liesa Fries, Julius Feldmaier, Merab Ninidze
Producers: Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Cordula Kablitz-Post, Helge Sasse
Production company
KGP Filmproduktion GmbH
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1070 Vienna
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With
Avanti Media (D), Senator Film (D)
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