Rider of the Flames

Rider of the Flames

Actors:  Martin Feifel, Marianne Denicourt, Ulrich Matthes, Nina Hoss, Margit Carstensen, Matthias Faber Directors:  Nina Grosse

Feuerreiter is an elegant period drama that begins in Frankfurt in 1796. Through his friend, Baron von Sinclair, romantic and rebellious poet Friedrich Hölderlin secures the position of a private tutor in the home of a banker named Gontard. He is soon torn between his passion for poetry and his love for Susette, the lady of the house. To to...