'NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND'
LAVISH HISTORICAL ADVENTURE
I promised you at the very beginning of the year that this month will be filled with reports on international period set projects and I'm keeping to
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The movie hits cinemas this March |
that promise today as well by taking you over to Germany where a new historical adventure is ready to hit the big screens March 12th!
NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND is the movie adaptation of
Narziss und Goldmund a famous novel by Nobel Prize winner
Herman Hesse! Magnetic German superstar
Jannis Niewohner, whom we fell deeply in love with a few years ago in their stunning historical mini series
Maximilian, takes the lead role of a young man Goldmund who wanders aimlessly throughout Medieval Germany after leaving a Catholic monastery school in search of what could be described as
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Jannis Niewohner takes the lead role |
"the meaning of life". Oscar winning Austrian director
Stefan Ruzowitzky is helming the expensive production. The novel itself was first published back in 1930 and was translated into more than 40 languages!
What Is The Story About?
The young Goldmund (
Jannis Niewohner) is sent by his father to study
in the monastery Mariabronn and meets there the religious monastic
student Narcissus (
Sabin Tambrea, whom you might remember from their
historical series on their crazy emperor Ludwig II).
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Sabin Tambrea takes the role of Narziss in the movie |
Narcissus has
dedicated himself to the ascetic and austere life in the monastery with
heart and soul and Goldmund first tries to imitate him. An
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Emilia Schule is Julia in the movie adaptation of Hesse's novel |
intimate
friendship soon develops between the two, but the boisterous and
fun-loving Goldmund soon realizes that the life perspective the convent
offers does not match his ideas of freedom and, emboldened by Narcissus,
embarks
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Henriette Confurius plays Goldmund's love interest Lene |
on a journey full of adventure in which he finally meets his
great love Lene (
Henriette Confurius). But years later, Narcissus and
Goldmund meet again under dramatic circumstances.
Methinks I wouldn't want to be foun dead in Medieval Germany.
ReplyDeleteIt was very stinky...
DeleteMakes me wish I spoke German so I could watch it!
ReplyDeleteIt will probably get English subs, if not on some of your channels, then probably on German Period Drama channel at YouTube :)
DeleteAlways glad to see this kind of historical movie, promising trailer!
ReplyDeleteAre the French making any new historical drama or movie?
DeleteI think I just found the meaning of life in Goldmund. I would watch just to see him!
ReplyDeleteAnd he is also gorgeous to boot :)
DeleteI'd watch this one even without the subtitles. Looks so good!
ReplyDeleteGermans do know how to make a mediaeval adventure!
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