• Feature Film
  • Drama

Lou Andreas-Salomé

Filmplakat mit einem Porträt einer Frau im historischen Kostüm vor einem Hintergrund mit handschriftlichen Texten, dazu die Schriftzüge "Friedrich Nietzsche... hat sie verehrt. Rainer Maria Rilke... hat sie geliebt. Sigmund Freud... hat sie bewundert. Eine außergewöhnliche Frau. Ein außergewöhnliches Leben.", "Katharina Lorenz", "Lou Andreas-Salomé" und "Ein Film von 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.

Data

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Lou Salomé - Wie ich dich liebe, Rätselleben
Genre
Drama
Category
Feature Film
Financing
Minority coproduction
Format
Digital, 113 Min
Release
09.09.2016
Distribution
Filmcasino & Polyfilm Betriebs GmbH
Admissions
13.237
Co-production

Avanti Media (DE), Tempest Film (DE)

International funding

Nordmedia, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden Würtemberg, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Business Location Südtirol, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Tax Credit Italien

Funding program
ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service
25.02.2018
Viewers
73.000
Film location
Germany, Italy, Austria
Shooting time
May - June 2015
Completion
Summer 2016
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria
Credits
Production
KGP Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer Austria
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Director
Cordula Kabitz-Post
Script
Cordula Kablitz-Post
DOP
Matthias Schellenberg
Editor
Beatrice Babin
Sound engineer
Joe Knauer
Costume design
Bettina Helmi
Set design
Nikolai Ritter
Music
Judit Varga
Cast
Katharina Lorenz (Lou Andreas-Salomé 21-50), Merab Ninidze (Friedrich Carl Andreas), Julius Feldmeier (Rainer Maria Rilke), Philipp Hauß (Paul Rée), Alexander Scheer (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Production manager
Katja Roesch, Christine Schwarzinger
Television investment
ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), NDR

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