Sabine Wegner

Essay film about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926).

Celebrated West German director Alexander Kluge presents this drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly. A side plot follows a meeting between former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and East German leader Erich Honecker.

Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff’s controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against the RAF terrorists Baader, Meinhoff, Ensslin, and Raspe. The trial that started in May 1975 in the Stammheim maximum-security prison extended over 192 days and ended with a lifetime sentence for all defendants.

별 부족함 없이 살아온 중년의 줄리우스는 어느 날 아내의 외도 사실을 안 뒤 집을 떠나 별거하기로 한다. 그런데 줄리우스가 구한 룸메이트는 바로 아내의 애인 스테판이었고, 어쩌다 보니 두 사람은 친해져 버린다.