The Greater Circulation

• Movies
• 2005-01-01
• EN
• Released
• 2h 33m
• Drama

• 0.0
• 0

Production

ParaTheatrical ReSearch

Tagline

Love means protecting the solitude of another

Storyline

1908, Paris. Over three fever-dream nights in the Hotel Biron, poet Rainer Maria Rilke encounters the ghost of his good friend, artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died shortly after giving birth to her first child. In response to this haunting, Rilke writes his epic prose lament, "Requiem for a Friend", as a tribute to Paula and to women torn between choosing a life sacrificed to Art or to Motherhood. One hundred years later, three women - a painter, an actress and a dancer - and a theatre director prepare to stage Rilke's "Requiem" in Berkeley California as abstract performance ritual.