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

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

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Ralf Schmerberg

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Luise Rainer

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Meret Becker

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Jürgen Vogel

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Marcia Haydee

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David Bennent

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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
Producer
Eva Meier-Schönung, 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
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