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Beloved Sisters

Original title: Die geliebten Schwestern
  • 20142014
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 2h 18m
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6.2/10
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Beloved Sisters (2014)
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The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and ... Read allThe 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.
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    • Dominik Graf
    • Dominik Graf(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Hannah Herzsprung
    • Florian Stetter
    • Henriette Confurius
    • Dominik Graf
    • Dominik Graf(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Hannah Herzsprung
    • Florian Stetter
    • Henriette Confurius
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    • 14User reviews
    • 62Critic reviews
    • 66Metascore
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    Hannah Herzsprung in Beloved Sisters (2014)
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    Hannah Herzsprung
    Hannah Herzsprung
    • Caroline von Beulwitz
    Florian Stetter
    Florian Stetter
    • Friedrich Schiller
    Henriette Confurius
    Henriette Confurius
    • Charlotte von Lengefeld
    Claudia Messner
    • Madame Louise von Lengefeld
    Ronald Zehrfeld
    Ronald Zehrfeld
    • Wilhelm von Wolzogen
    Maja Maranow
    Maja Maranow
    • Frau Charlotte von Stein
    Michael Wittenborn
    Michael Wittenborn
    • Carl Ludwig von Knebel
    Andreas Pietschmann
    Andreas Pietschmann
    • Friedrich von Beulwitz
    Anne Schäfer
    Anne Schäfer
    • Charlotte von Kalb
    Peter Schneider
    Peter Schneider
    • Christian Gottfried Körner
    Elisabeth Wasserscheid
    Elisabeth Wasserscheid
    • Schwenke
    Christine Zart
    • Haushälterin Stein
    Wolf Dietrich Rammler
    • Heinrich von Kalb
    • (as Wolf-Dietrich Rammler)
    Klaus Lehmann
    • Henry Heron
    Joachim Kappl
    • Friedrich von Stein
    • (as Joachim Kappel)
    Bernhard Conrad
    • Arzt (Jena)
    Peter Rauch
    • Pedell
    Hans Bayer
    • Kutscher (Ludwigsburg)
      • Dominik Graf
      • Dominik Graf(screenplay)
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      Germany's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 87th Academy Awards 2015.
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      Rameau: Ouverture (Dardanus)
      Written by Jean-Philippe Rameau (uncredited)

      Performed by Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

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    4/10
    trivial tapestry
    (note: I watched the short version, about 140 minutes, of this film)

    Beautiful landscapes, beautiful interiors with subtle natural lighting, beautiful actors and some beautiful moments don't save this film from being a serious disappointment that may be tolerable on a TV screen, but certainly not on a cinema screen.

    Allegedly this is a story about passion, and early on in the film there is a promising moment when Schiller, soaking wet and half-frozen after rescuing a child out of a stream, is warmed up by the sisters clinging to his body; this was quite erotic, but sadly it remained the only erotic moment in the whole film. The director's approach to sensuality and passion here is much too buttoned up; the result is bland and soporific. You can't have women like Herzsprung and Confurius in such a film and never have them undress; this is simply inexcusable.

    I won't talk about the score here; the music is so irrelevant that it doesn't even affect the film negatively. I'd like to talk about scenes: Usually, a film, be it a Hollywood film or an art film, is made of scenes; a succession of scenes, with each individual scene having a beginning, an ending, a development in between, and a relation to the preceding and to the following scenes.

    Dominik Graf obviously doesn't believe in scenes. Take, for example, the beginning of his film: First shot is a close-up of Confurius sitting in a coach. I expected that I would get to know this character now and that I would be guided into the world of the film. Well, I was wrong. Suddenly an ugly voice-over starts explaining who this girl is and what she is about to do. Then we cut to something else. So what about the opening scene? There simply is no opening scene! This is terrible. Imagine a writer writing a novel and not even getting his first sentence right. The editing is terrible throughout. I remember at one point there is a cut to a wide shot of a street, and about half a second later there is another cut away to something else before we even had time to appreciate what is going on in this street. Terrible. However, the general problem concerning the editing is not that it is too fast, but (and I don't know if the writer/director or the editor is to blame for it) that the editor was incapable of giving the story a compelling structure, a recognizable rhythm. Instead of a succession of meaningful scenes we get an erratic tapestry of meaningless pretty shots, and even if these shots group themselves to a kind of individual scene from time to time, there is no weight behind it, no sense that this scene had to start at exactly this point and had to end at exactly that point. In contrast to the sad mess that "Die geliebten Schwestern" is, you may want to have a look at Kubrick's "Lolita" (there may be many other good examples, but this film comes to my mind right now as a benchmark for masterful writing): Instead of trying to cram as many scenes of Nabokov's novel as possible into the screenplay, they wrote mainly long or very long unforgettable scenes, that give the actors time to breathe and to unfold.

    Bottom line: If you love the art of filmmaking and wan't to spare yourself some serious frustration, I don't recommend this one.
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    • kleiner_fuchs
    • Aug 16, 2014

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      • July 31, 2014 (Germany)
      • Germany
      • Austria
      • Switzerland
      • German
      • French
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      • Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Bavaria Filmverleih- und Produktions GmbH
      • Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
      • Wega Film
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    • 2 hours 18 minutes
      • Color
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