In Love with Lou

Panorama

""Katharina Lorenz portrayed the perfect balance between the intellectual and femme fatale""

Weekend Notes
  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post
  • Germany 2016
  • 113 minutes
  • German
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Friedrich Nietzsche admired her, Rainer Maria Rilke loved her, Sigmund Freud worshiped her… Was Lou Andreas-Salomé a writer or a muse, a feminist or a femme fatale? The new film by Cordula Kablitz-Post looks at one of Europe’s most influential intellectuals - and at her complicated life.

New ideas spread across Europe like summer lightning in the years before World War I and Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1936) bridged those worlds of philosophy, literature and psychology, making contributions to each one. Her novels and criticism challenged readers to rethink gender roles, and she became a pioneering psychoanalyst.

Feature Debut


  • Director Cordula Kablitz-Post
  • Production Cordula Kablitz- Post, Helge Sasse, Gabriele Kranzelbinder
  • Script Cordula Kablitz-Post, Susanne Hertel
  • Cinematography Matthias Schellenberg
  • Editing Beatrice Babin
  • Music Judit Varga
  • Festivals Shanghai
  • Actors Nicole Heesters, Katharina Lorenz, Liv Lisa Fries, Julius Feldmeier
  • Source ARRI Media, Munich