ACFNY SUPPORTED | PANORAMA EUROPE FILM FESTIVAL: “THE DREAMED ONES”
Ruth Beckermann, 2016
89 mins
In German with English subtitles
As part of the 10th anniversary of the Panorama Europe Film Festival 2018, we are pleased to present the screening of THE DREAMED ONES (DIE GETRÄUMTEN) directed by Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann, at the Museum of the Moving Image.
FILM SYNOPSIS
A passionate, doomed literary love affair is brought to life in this inventive, one-of-a-kind meta-romance. Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan were two giants of postwar German-language poetry whose unlikely affair (he was the son of Jewish Holocaust victims, she the daughter of a Nazi) lasted only months but sparked hundreds of letters exchanged over the course of decades-documents of two brilliant minds working through heady questions of art, postwar guilt, and politics, as well as their own complex feelings for one another. Their soul-baring correspondence is related via two magnetic actors (played by Anja Plaschg and Laurence Rupp) who, in channeling the writers, discover their own spark of attraction—a continuation of a love story that resonates across decades.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann was born in Vienna and studied journalism and history of art in Vienna, Tel Aviv, and New York. In 1977 she was awarded her Ph.D. from the University in Vienna and has since contributed to several Austrian and Swiss magazines as a journalist. Her film “The Dreamed Ones” was selected at many international festivals and won several awards. Beckermann is currently preparing her next project, “The Waldheim Waltz,” which will be presented in 2018. www.ruthbeckermann.com
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Panorama Europe Film Festival 2018, co-presented by Museum of the Moving Image and the members of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture), includes fiction and documentary works that present a portrait of contemporary Europe during a period of tremendous flux. The festival continues to give New Yorkers an eclectic overview of the current European film scene. Highlighting recent films from throughout the continent, several of the films explore dialogues between the historic upheavals of the twentieth century and the current moment.
VENUE
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106