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Grabbe's Last Summer (1980)

Overview

Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless has succeeded in taking on an unusual project — the life and times of a German literary figure — and making it interesting. Christian Dietrich Grabbes lived a very short life in the first half of the 19th century and is primarily known for his satire, skepticism, basurd theater and the fact that he presaged the Postmodern movement in literature. Hannibal and Don Juan and Faust are two of his better-known works. In this docudrama, his Comedy, Satire, Irony and Deeper Meaning is featured partly because it gives a drubbing to the icons of German thought that had a stranglehold on the creative process. One memorable moment in this three-and-a-half-hour story is when the alcoholic writer is caught in the throes of delirium and comes around to see his own mother as a figure of death. The irony is that an Iranian director could capture the spirit and age of a German writer so well
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Sohrab Shahid Saless profile
Sohrab Shahid Saless

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Cast

Gabriele Fischer profile
Gabriele Fischer

Sophie Möller

Wilfried Grimpe profile
Wilfried Grimpe

Christian Dietrich Grabbe

Eberhard Fechner profile
Eberhard Fechner

Piderit

Sonja Karzau profile
Sonja Karzau

Dorothea Grabbe

Gunther Malzacher profile
Gunther Malzacher

Althaus

Heinz Rabe profile
Heinz Rabe

Stedtfeld

Alexander Radszun profile
Alexander Radszun

Maler Bergius

Renate Schroeter profile
Renate Schroeter

Luise Grabbe

Ulrich von Bock profile
Ulrich von Bock

Moritz Petri

Gabriele Fischer profile
Gabriele Fischer

Sophie Möller

Wilfried Grimpe profile
Wilfried Grimpe

Christian Dietrich Grabbe

Eberhard Fechner profile
Eberhard Fechner

Piderit

Sonja Karzau profile
Sonja Karzau

Dorothea Grabbe

Gunther Malzacher profile
Gunther Malzacher

Althaus

Heinz Rabe profile
Heinz Rabe

Stedtfeld

Alexander Radszun profile
Alexander Radszun

Maler Bergius

Renate Schroeter profile
Renate Schroeter

Luise Grabbe

Ulrich von Bock profile
Ulrich von Bock

Moritz Petri

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Release Date

January 1, 1980

Original Language

German

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

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