Lebendig is richer in nuance and perhaps pays unwitting tribute to Akira Kurosawa’s incredible film on the same theme
Ikiru), they spend the final days of their lives together ahead of their common fate in which life and death instincts intertwine. As Victor Hugo wrote to Juliette Drouet, “to love is more than to live”.
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Sophie clings to memories of times spent on stage. She has a magnificent theatre costume hanging in the middle of her Munich apartment, whose walls are papered with front covers of Berlin magazine
Tanztheater, which, together with the theatrical set-up of the film, unfolding almost exclusively indoors, reveals the director’s passion for the world of theatre. But Siebert also shows his knowledge of the governing tools of film language - that is, framing and editing - and how to use them. Looking to the films of Ingmar Bergman, for his debut feature film the German director makes use of the theatrical