film profile], which was screened within the Forum section of the 2021 Berlinale, takes as its starting point the complex figure of one of the greatest exponents of German Romanticism
Friedrich Hölderlin, to describe a director’s inability to complete a film project about the great poet and philosopher, a character who belongs in the “unwanted” group gracing his previous films. Here, in the surrounds of Hölderlin’s city, Tubinga, and in the company of Catarina (Portuguese actress
Catarina Wallenstein) who’s assistant to a producer (
Freddy Paul Grunert) whom we only see in a short introduction (which then turns out to be an early epilogue), director Emmer (