AMOUR FOU
Feature Film, AT/LU/DE 2014, Farbe, 96 min.
Diagonale 2015

Director, Script: Jessica Hausner
Cast: Birte Schnöink, Christian Friedel, Stephan Grossmann, Sandra Hüller, Holger Handtke, Marie-Paule von Roesgen u.a.
Camera: Martin Gschlacht
Editor: Karina Ressler
Location Sound: Uwe Haußig
Sounddesign: Nicolas Tran Trong
Production Design: Katharina Wöppermann
Costumes: Tanja Hausner
Producers: Martin Gschlacht, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Philippe Bober
Production: coop99 Filmproduktion
Co-production: AMOUR FOU Luxembourg, Essential Filmproduktion, in Zusammenarbeit mit WDR/ARTE
During the Romantic era, Berlin’s bourgeois society passes the time with chamber music and social events in the evenings. Weary of such a marionette-like existence, the poet Heinrich longs for suicide and seeks a companion for this final step. After profound diagnosis, Henriette, the young wife of an acquaintance, contemplates following Heinrich’s call. “A romantic comedy” inspired by Heinrich von Kleist’s suicide.