Movie

Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist

★ 5.8/10 · 4 votes 1983 2h 24m Released

The film interweaves three layers: the centre is Kleist's play "Penthesilea". Like from a distance Kleist observes the relationship beween man and woman, when he transfers into mythical Greece what in his time became a problem for him in Prussia - and remains to be a problem also for us. The director's associations during the work form the second layer. Reality and fantasy blend to an imaginary biography of Kleist, the third layer. At the end of the film Kleist is identical with his title character Penthesilesa.

Cast

Elisabeth Trissenaar Penthesilea H Hermann Treusch Achilles V Verena Peter Prothoe L Lieselotte Rau Oberpriesterin Nicole Heesters Asteria Berta Drews Oberste