Movie
Melting Ink
2023 · 169 min
A long, cerebral essay that asks patience and rewards it with layered, uncomfortable questions about art and complicity.
- Directed by
- Dominik Graf
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Anatol Regnier, Günter Rohrbach, Florian Illies
- Overview
- In 2020, the author Anatol Regnier published Jeder schreibt für sich allein, a book that examines the life and work of writers in Nazi Germany. In collaboration with Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieband, and Felix von Boehm have adapted this book into a polyphonic essay film of the same name – almost three hours in duration – that takes a meticulous look at the contradictory biographies of Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Art, politics, morality, identity
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Dominik Graf
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Anatol Regnier, Günter Rohrbach, Florian Illies
