Beloved Sisters

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 (2014-02-08) (Berlin) 31 July 2014 (2014-07-31) (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

• 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

See also

• List of submissions to the 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

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

Further reading

• Foundas, Scott (8 February 2014). "Berlin Film Review: 'Beloved Sisters'". Variety. An extended review in English.

External links

• Beloved Sisters at IMDb
• Beloved Sisters at Metacritic