Fire Rider (1998)

Original title

Feuerreiter

Directed by

Nina Grosse

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, France, Austria, Poland

Runtime

2h 10m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1796 Frankfurt, the poet Friedrich Hölderlin becomes a private tutor for a banker's family. He struggles between his poetry and his love for the lady of the house, while his friend Baron von Sinclair also loves him. This conflict inspires his best poems, but after losing his love he becomes a recluse.

elegantromanticmelancholicslow-burnintrospectivepoetictensevisually lush

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