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Jan 6, 2015 · Beloved Sisters. by Mike D'Angelo. Shortly before dying in 1847, Caroline von Wolzogen, sister-in-law of famed German intellectual Friedrich Schiller, destroyed all her copious correspondence related to him, presumably in an effort to prevent the intimate details of their relationship from being known.
Over the course of almost three hours, Graf recounts the efforts of Schiller and the Lengefeld sisters to maintain the romantic love kindled during the summer they spend together not far from Weimar, the intellectual center of a country not yet born.
Jan 8, 2015 · At almost three hours, “Beloved Sisters,” written and directed by Dominik Graf, is a very nearly epic romance, one that approaches the idea of a ménage-a-trois as emblematic of a particular idealism on the part of its participants rather than a hotsy-totsy taboo-busting arrangement.
Feb 8, 2014 · Berlin Film Review: ‘Beloved Sisters’. The menage a trois between Friedrich Schiller, his wife and his sister-in-law makes for an exquisitely detailed, unusually brainy costume drama. Nearly a...
Jan 8, 2015 · Essential in making all these situations emotionally creditable is the fine work by the film’s trio of excellent actors: Florian Stetter as Schiller and Hannah Herzsprung and Henriette...
This is the essential question invoked in German director Dominik Graf’s “Beloved Sisters.” The romance explores the private life of famous German poet, writer and dramatist Friedrich Schiller and his enduring love triangle with the von Lengefeld sisters.
Sep 22, 2014 · Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters (Die geliebten Schwestern) sharply re-invents the costume drama with an historical fiction centered around the ménage-à-trois love story between writer Friedrich Schiller (Florian Stetter) and the sisters Caroline and Charlotte von Lengefeld.
