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      Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

      Released May 8, 2003 1h 32m Drama List
      Reviews A wide-ranging, eclectic group of 19 German poems -- from writers including Friedrich Schiller, Heiner Müller and Paul Celan -- are interpreted in an interconnected series of surreal vignettes. In one, a distraught man (Herman van Veen) scours the ruins of a burned-out house in search of his deceased child; this is set to a reading of Hans Arp's "Sophie." In another, a man wearing medieval armor (David Bennent) interprets a poem by Georg Trakl while marching in a Berlin street. Read More Read Less

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      Synopsis A wide-ranging, eclectic group of 19 German poems -- from writers including Friedrich Schiller, Heiner Müller and Paul Celan -- are interpreted in an interconnected series of surreal vignettes. In one, a distraught man (Herman van Veen) scours the ruins of a burned-out house in search of his deceased child; this is set to a reading of Hans Arp's "Sophie." In another, a man wearing medieval armor (David Bennent) interprets a poem by Georg Trakl while marching in a Berlin street.
      Director
      Ralf Schmerberg
      Screenwriter
      Ralf Schmerberg, Antonia Keinz
      Distributor
      ottfilm GmbH
      Production Co
      Radical Media
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      German
      Release Date (Theaters)
      May 8, 2003, Wide
      Runtime
      1h 32m