Amour fou
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Christian Friedel
Birte Schnöink
Stephan Grossmann
Peter Jordan
Sebastian Hülk
Marc Bischoff
Alissa Wilms
Paraschiva Dragus
Marie-Paule von Roesgen,
Josiane Peiffer
Nickel Bösenberg
Katharina Schüttler
Holger Handtke
Camera: Martin Gschlacht
Production Design: Katharina Wöppermann
Costume Design: Tanja Hausner
Editor: Karina Ressler
Make-up: Heiko Schmidt & Kerstin Gaecklein
Sound: Uve Haußig
Sound Design: Nicolas Tran Trong
Sound Mixer: Michel Schillings
Line Producers: André Fetzer
Set dresser: Alessandro Palestro
Key Grip : Laurent Wallerang
Still photographer : Christophe Olinger
Gaffer: Helder Loureiro Alves Da Silva
Script/Continuity: Nadia Masri
Postproduction Coordinator: Marie Lesage
Art Director: Boris Bartholomäus
“Amour Fou” is inspired by the life and death of the poet Heinrich von Kleist and his partner in death, Henriette Vogel. However, rather than being a biographical portrait, the film tells the parable on the ambivalence of love. “Amour Fou” deals with the ambivalence and absurdity inherent in the very concept of two people committing suicide because of their love for one another. This act aims on the yearning to escape the inevitability of death through love, to avoid dying alone and to oppose the power of mortality over humankind by dictating the terms of one´s death. However, the fundamental absurdity lies in the fact that the joint act cannot be experienced jointly in any complete sense, since love is fickle and everybody – in the end – must die alone.