Lenz

1982
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

111

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An adaptation of George Buchner's novella, "Lenz", chronicling the poet Jakob Lenz's slide into insanity and madness. The setting is transposed from 18th century Germany to New York in the e... Read allAn adaptation of George Buchner's novella, "Lenz", chronicling the poet Jakob Lenz's slide into insanity and madness. The setting is transposed from 18th century Germany to New York in the early 1980s.An adaptation of George Buchner's novella, "Lenz", chronicling the poet Jakob Lenz's slide into insanity and madness. The setting is transposed from 18th century Germany to New York in the early 1980s.

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5.7/10

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7/10

Sparse, but intense

Georg Büchner's Lenz, a classic novella of German literature, is imaginatively and thoughtfully set into present-day New York, told in sparse, but intensive images and conveying a person lost in a large, nihilistic environment.