Beloved Sisters

2014 film

Beloved Sisters
Film poster
Directed by	Dominik Graf
Written by	Dominik Graf
Produced by	Uschi Reich
Starring	Hannah Herzsprung Florian Stetter Henriette Confurius Claudia Messner Ronald Zehrfeld Maja Maranow Michael Wittenborn
Cinematography	Michael Wiesweg
Edited by	Claudia Wolscht
Music by	Sven Rossenbach Florian van Volxem
Release dates	8 February 2014 (2014年2月8日) (Berlin) 31 July 2014 (2014年7月31日) (Germany)
Running time	138 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Beloved Sisters (German: Die geliebten Schwestern)^[1] is a 2014 German biographical film written and directed by Dominik Graf. The film is based on the life of the German poet Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) and upon his long relationships with two sisters, Caroline and Charlotte von Lengefeld. Schiller was ultimately married to Charlotte von Lengefeld.

The film was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, and had its premiere at the festival.^[2] It was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.^[3]

Cast

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Henriette Confurius as Charlotte von Lengefeld
Florian Stetter as Friedrich Schiller
Hannah Herzsprung as Caroline von Beulwitz
Claudia Messner as Madame Lengefeld
Ronald Zehrfeld as Wolzogen
Andreas Pietschmann as Friedrich von Beulwitz
Maja Maranow as Frau von Stein
Peter Schneider as Christian Gottfried Körner
Anne Schäfer as Charlotte von Kalb
Michael Wittenborn as Knebel
Thomas Kornack as Kutscher in Weimar
Christine Zart as Housekeeper Stein

References

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^ "Die geliebten Schwestern". berlinale. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
^ "First Films for Competition and Berlinale Special". berlinale. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
^ "OSCARS: Germany Selects Dominik Graf's 'Beloved Sisters' as Academy Award Entry". Variety. Retrieved 27 August 2014.

External links

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v t e Friedrich Schiller
Plays	The Robbers Fiesco Intrigue and Love Körner's Morning Don Carlos Wallenstein Wallenstein's Camp The Piccolomini Wallenstein's Death Mary Stuart The Maid of Orleans The Bride of Messina William Tell Die Huldigung der Künste Demetrius
Libretti	Semele
Selected poems	Ode to Joy Resignation Die Götter Griechenlandes Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais Die Teilung der Erde Xenien Der Handschuh Der Taucher Die Kraniche des Ibykus Ritter Toggenburg Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer Der Ring des Polykrates Der Kampf mit dem Drachen Die Bürgschaft Das Lied von der Glocke Nänie Der Antritt des neuen Jahrhunderts Das Siegesfest
Selected prose works	The Criminal of Lost Honour The Ghost-Seer A magnanimous act
Selected philosophical works	The Theatre Considered as a Moral Institution Über den Grund des Vergnügens an tragischen Gegenständen Augustenburger Briefe On Grace and Dignity Über das Pathetische Kallias-Briefe On the Aesthetic Education of Man On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry Über das Erhabene
Historical works	What is universal history and why does one study it?
Journals	Wirtembergisches Repertorium Thalia Die Horen
Memorials	Berlin Chicago Columbus Milwaukee (with Goethe) Syracuse (with Goethe) Weimar (with Goethe)
Related	Johann Kaspar Schiller (father) Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller (mother) Charlotte von Lengefeld (wife) Carl Christoph von Lengefeld (father-in-law) Louise von Lengefeld (mother-in-law) Karl von Schiller (son) Ernst von Schiller (son) Emilie von Gleichen-Rußwurm (daughter) Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm (grandson) Alexander von Gleichen-Rußwurm (great-grandson) Christophine Reinwald (sister) Wilhelm Friedrich Hermann Reinwald (son-in-law) Weimar Classicism Play drive Skull Friedrich Schiller (1923 film) Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius (1940 film) Beloved Sisters (2014 film)