In Love with Lou - A Philosopher's Life (Lou Andreas-Salomé)

Mon Nov 21, 2016

21:00

Location

Cine Studio
(University of Nicosia)
46 Makedonitissas Avenue
Nicosia, Nicosia

Friends of Cinema Society
Phone: 96420491

Description

The ailing writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé is leading a lonely existence in Göttingen 1933 threatened by the Nazi regime. When German philologist Ernst Pfeiffer enters her life, she begins to write her memoirs with him. Born 1861 in St. Petersburg she vows never to fall in love and to pursue intellectual perfection. She meets Paul Rée and Friedrich Nietzsche and against all conventions of time, Lou and Rée live and study together in Berlin. Lou attains her goal of an intellectual and free spirited life, but when she meets the young and still unknown writer Rainer Maria Rilke she falls in love. After they break up she has numerous affairs. Lou begins to attend Sigmund Freud’s lectures, becomes a well-esteemed psychoanalyst and finally recognizes the trauma of her youth.

Cast:
Κatharina Lorenz
Nicole Heesters
Liv Lisa Fries
Alexander Scheer
Julius Feldmeier

Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post
Writer: Cordula Kablitz-Post, Susanne Hertel
Runtime: 108 min
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Language: German
Subtitles: English
Production Year: 2016

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