Die Geträumten (2016)

Paul Celan is a rising poet, whose Jewish parents died in a Nazi concentration camp. Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of an NSDAP soldier, studies philosophy and does not yet take her own writing seriously. Paul and Ingeborg met in Vienna in 1948. He was 27 years old and she was 22. To Celan, Vienna was a stopover on his way to Paris, and Bachmann has difficulties coming there often because of the money and visa problems. Yet they became lovers anyway, and their relationship – passionate, torturous, interrupted by marriages and affairs – spread over two centuries and stopped only when Celan died from suicide in 1970. Bachmann died three years later in a fire, the circumstances of which weren't fully determined. Their love letters remained and became the foundation for this highly unusual film.