Kleist Trilogy – Films by Hans Neuenfels

DVD 1 – HEINRICH PENTHESILEA VON KLEIST
Hans Neuenfels, GER 1983, 144 min
After the tragedy “Penthesilea” by Heinrich von Kleist.
The centre of Hans Neuenfels film is Kleist’s “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. Bringing his own associations during the work in, Hans Neuenfels blends reality and fantasy to an imaginary biography of Kleist. Fix identifications mix up as the main protagonists more and more assimilate to Kleist himself. – With Elisabeth Trissenaar, Hermann Treusch, Hans Neuenfels, Verena Peter, Lieselotte Rau, Nicole Heesters, Ulrich Haß, Jörg Holm, Edith Robbers, Charlotte Joeres, Berta Drews, Holger Madin, Hans-Eckart Eckhardt, Hans-Joachim Grubel, Honor Maier, Stefan Wieland sowie Susanne Lietz, Thomas Krummnow, Benedict Neuenfels, Carlo Rola, Michael Schmiedl, Paul Schmitz
Extras: Hans Neuenfels and Benedict Neuenfels about the Kleist-Trilogy (Video, 15 min), 20-page booklet, Digitally remastered 2013 – Language: German, Subtitles: English, Format: 1:1,66, Color, Sound: DD 2.0
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DVD 2 – THE FAMILY OR SCHROFFENSTEIN
Hans Neuenfels, GER 1984, 144 min
Based on the tragedy “The feud of the Schroffensteins” by Heinrich von Kleist.
The aristocratic families of Rossitz and Warwand, who are relatives, have started to treat each other with mistrust and hatred, since a testamentary contract has stated, that the complete goods will be inherited to the respective surviving line. At the same time the young generation is in love, how can the tender ties between Agnes of Warwand and Ottokar of Rossitz be protected? Killed by their own fathers, they lie in their blood. A radical drama about the term “family”. – With Ulrich Wildgruber, Annemarie Düringer, René Hofschneider, Stefan Wieland, Peter Palitzsch, Hermann Treusch, Sabine Sinjen, Angela Schanelec, Ulrich Haß, Hans-Eckart Eckhardt, Jörg Holm, Lore Stefanek, Martina Ott
Extras: Hans Neuenfels and Benedict Neuenfels about the Kleist-Trilogy (Video, 15 min), 32-page booklet, Digitally remastered 2013 – Language: German, Subtitles: English, Format: 1:1,38, Color, Sound: DD 2.0
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DVD 3 – INNOCENCE UNKNOWN
Hans Neuenfels, GER 1988, 110 min
After the essay “On Marionette theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist.
Hans Neuenfels engages in INNOCENCE UNKNOWN with Kleist’s most important essay “On Marionette theatre”, which is a key to his complete work. In the center of it is Kleist himself. “The great question of Europe, identity and its loss, is touched in this linguistic masterpiece as much as the longing for a new innocence to be won, which – according to Kleist – was already lost at the gate of paradise.” (Hans Neuenfels) – With Hans-Michael Rehberg, Ingo Hülsmann, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Bernhard Minetti, Ulrich Wildgruber, Peter Palitzsch, Mathieu Carrière, Hermann Treusch, Irm Hermann, Lola Müthel, Egon Madsen, Eva Evdokimova, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barbara Morawiecz, Hans Martin Stier, Ulrich Haß, Thomas Hodina, Johanna Karl-Lory, Bettina Grack, Christiane Bruhn, Gabriele Buch, Carola Regnier, Jürgen Wallraff, Thomas Heidemann, Timothy Peach, René Ramser, Thomas Rohloff, Christa Bille, Gesellschaft in Preußen: Emanuela von Frankenberg, Tanja von Oertzen, Manfred Günther, Gottfried Lackmann, Ulrich Marx, René Ramser, Sylvester Schmidt, Artisten: Hanna Köhler, Sybilla Meckel, Lilian Naef, Uta Prelle, Marcus Bluhm, Wolfram Bölzle, Markus Dietz, Heino Ferch, Max Gertsch, Stefan Wieland, Hajo Zörner
Extras: Hans Neuenfels and Benedict Neuenfels about the Kleist-Trilogy (Video, 15 min), 20-page booklet, Digitally remastered 2013 – Language: German, Subtitles: English, Format: 1:1,66, Color, Sound: DD 2.0
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