Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey Into The Desert (Ingeborg Bachmann – Reise in die Wüste)

Margarethe von Trotta

Year of release in Luxembourg 2023

Director Margarethe von Trotta

Luxembourg producer AMOUR FOU LUXEMBOURG

In co-production with

Tellfilm (CH)
HEIMATFILM (DE)
AMOUR FOU Vienna (AT)

Script Margarethe von Trotta

Original version

French
German
Italian
Arabic

Duration 110 minutes

International sales

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Cast and crew

Cast

Vicky Krieps
Ronald Zehrfeld
Tobias Resch
Basil Eidenbenz
Luna Wedler
Marc Limpach
Renato Carpentieri
Nickel Bösenberg
Bernd Hölscher
Martin Vischer
Philip Leonhard Kelz
Sallar Othman
Elisabeth Chuffart

Crew

Martin Gschlacht Director of Photography
Su Erdt Production Designer
Uli Simon Costume Designer
Marc Hollenstein, Miriam Blank Make Up Design
Patrick Storck Sound Recordist on Set
André Mergenthaler Composer
Christos Dervenis, Sascha Verhey, Julian Berner, André Fetzer Line Producers
Olivier Monnard, Igor Orovac, Karoline Maes Production Managers
Katharina Schmalenberg

Synopsis

The remarkable and charismatic Ingeborg Bachmann has conquered the male dominated bastion of German-language literature with her poetry. Though still young, Ingeborg Bachmann is at the peak of her career when she meets the famous playwright Max Frisch. Their love is passionate, but professional and personal friction begins to disrupt the harmony. When Ingeborg is struggling, her friends are there to help, including Hans Werner Henze and the young Adolf Opel, a Viennese journalist and man of literature. They travel to the desert together. On this journey she finds a way back to herself and – above all – to her writing.