
Amour Fou

Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his sceptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst com- ing to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin’s insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Hen- riette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich’s subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness. AMOUR FOU is a "romantic Comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
Data
- Genre
- Drama
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Majoritäre Koproduktion
- Format
- Digital Video, 96 Min
- Approximate cinema release
- 07.11.2014
- Release
- 07.11.2014
- Admissions
- 7.046
- Co-production
Amour Fou (LU), Essential Film (DE)
- International funding
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- Further information
- Eröffnungsfilm der Viennale 2014
- Film location
- Luxembourg, Germany, Austria
- Shooting time
- February - October 2013
- Completion
- Spring 2014
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria
Credits
- Production
- coop 99 filmproduktion G.m.b.H.
- Producer Austria
- Martin Gschlacht, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
- Director
- Jessica Hausner
- Script
- Jessica Hausner
- DOP
- Martin Gschlacht
- Editor
- Karina Ressler
- Sound engineer
- Uwe Haußig
- Costume design
- Tanja Hausner
- Set design
- Katharina Wöppermann
- Cast
- Christian Friedel (Heinrich), Birte Schnöink (Henriette), Stephan Grossmann (Vogel), Sandra Hüller (Marie)
- Production manager
- Julie Braham, Joe Kotroczo
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), WDR/ARTE, ARTE France
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