Edith Clever
Acting
Known For
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
The Adolescent
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German Film Award
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Bavarian Film Awards
A French-language anthology of seven famous, fantastic, and psychological stories by beloved American author Henry James.
Henry James Stories
A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky.
Summer Guests
Lars Eidinger is one of Germany’s most talented and versatile actors with his love of improvisation and physical acting style. This documentary seeks to dispel some of the mystique surrounding this exceptional actor’s unique art and also provide an exciting insight into the world of theatre and filmmaking.
Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not To Be
A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy. The action is centered on Wagner’s death mask. Kundry is the main character – one might read the film as the story of her redemption rather than that of Amfortas.
Parsifal
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
The Marquise of O
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.
The Left-Handed Woman
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Die Mutter
Austrian flmed staged production of Euripedes' The Bacchae, portraying a conflict between the deity Dionysus, son of Zeus, and his cousin Pentheus, ruler of Thebes
Die Bakchen
Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho StrauĂź.
Big and Little
An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.
Im Dickicht der Städte
The play about the rich man's death.
Jedermann - Salzburger Festspiele
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Drei Schwestern
Adaptation of a story by Henry James.
Georginas GrĂĽnde
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Die Unberatenen
An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg and many different authors, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Plato, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eduard Mörike, Richard Wagner, William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, and Chief Seattle.
The Night
A Bremen production of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Torquato Tasso". The theme of the drama is—in addition to the love of the young Tasso for the Princess of Este, the Duke's sister—the role of the poet in courtly society.
Torquato Tasso
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