Amour Fou

Product Description Heinrich is a melancholy young poet in Romantic Era Berlin who determines his best way out of despair is to end it all. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, Henrietta, fascinated by his controversial The Marquise of O, finds his plan intriguing, and she agrees to navigate the uncharted journey towards a suicide pact with him. Amour Fou inspired by the actual suicide in 1811 of Heinrich von Kleist and Henrietta Vogel goes against expectations to become a wry and curious denunciation of dying for love. Review Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival Official Selection - Karlovy Vary Film Festival Official Selection - Toronto Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Vienna Int'l Film Fsetival Official Selection - First Look Film Festival - --- Top Ten List for 2014. One of the great films about the nature of love. Brilliantly employs lieder by Mozart and Beethoven - the most telling use of period performance since Straub-Huillet's 1968 CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDELENA BACH. --Artforum A satirical yet sensitive study of the 1811 death pact between poet Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel. Hausner expertly conveys the claustrophobia and inflexibility of this environment by tightly choreographing her characters through carefully composed, sparsely decorated spaces. --Film Comment About the Actor Born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1979, Friedel is a well-known actor of stage and screen, having studied acting at the Munich Otto-Falckenberg School. His theater roles include serving as a cast member with the Schauspielhaus in Hanover, the Dresden State Theater and more. In 2013 he directed The Confessions of Marion Krotowski at Theater Augsburg. His film credits include The White Ribbon (2008) by Michael Haneke, winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Birte Schnöink was born in Bremen in 1984. Pursuing her life-long passion for acting, she studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin from 2006 to 2010; since 2009, she has been a permanent cast member of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. She takes on her first major film role with Amour Fou. About the Director Hausner was born the 6th of October 1972 in Vienna, Austria. She studied directing at the Filmacademy of Vienna, where in 1996 she made the short film Flora, which won the Léopard de Demain at the Locarno Film Festival. Inter-View, her thesis film, won the Prix du Jury of the Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999. Two years l