Neu im Kino: Formen moderner Erschöpfung

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With Birgit Unterweger, Rafael Stachowiak, Wolf List, Sarah Bernhardt. Documentary feature film by Sascha Hilpert.

The story of two people going through a crisis meets the reality of the last sanatorium of its kind. People have been coming to this place for over a hundred years in the hope of being cured. So do Nina and Henri, both in midlife, burnt out and from different backgrounds. Their paths cross between the dining room, reclining cure and therapy at a time when they are struggling to find peace of mind. The house snows in and everything becomes slow and quiet. The ghosts and stories from the long corridors become the companions of their days.

While the two read each other the riot act and try to forget their loneliness, a historian digs through the house archives for documents from the early days of the sanatorium. She researches the sanatorium as a hub in the history of modern exhaustion and traces an arc from neurasthenia to the "inner restlessness" of the present day for a dissertation. The house becomes the setting for an archaeology of exhaustion.

Forms of modern exhaustion -- From November 13 at the Tilsiter Lichtspiele cinema