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Feuerreiter

Deutschland Frankreich Polen 1997/1998 Spielfilm

Fire Rider

Frankfurt 1796. The talented and handsome poet Friedrich Hoelderlin takes up a position as private tutor in the banking family of Gontard, a position his friend and patron Baron Isaac von Sinclair had arranged for him. Sinclair loves Hoelderlin and wants to have him close by. It is not long before Hoelderlin and the wife of his employer, Susette, fall in love with each other. Their relationship doesn′t remain hidden to the jealous Sinclair, and he informs Gontard of the wife′s affair. Hoelderlin has to leave the house without knowing who was responsible for the end of his love affair. 

Sinclair takes Hoelderlin in and looks after him when the first signs of his later madness make themselves felt. Susette and Hoelderlin meet secretly once a month, for an hour. Hoelderlin′s most beautiful poems are written during this difficult time. However, nobody wants to acknowledge his bold way of writing. Torn back and forth between his passion for poetry, his love for Susette and Sinclair who also still desires him, Hoelderlin loses everything.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Nina Grosse

Screenplay

  • Susanne Schneider

Director of photography

  • Egon Werdin

Editing

  • Patricia Rommel

Music

  • Biber Gullatz
  • Eckes Maltz

Cast

  • Martin Feifel
    Friedrich Hölderlin
  • Marianne Denicourt
    Susette Gontard
  • Ulrich Mühe
    Jacob Gontard
  • Matthias Faber
    Henry Gontard
  • Zofia Saretok
    Mme Gontard d'Orville
  • Ulrich Matthes
    Baron Isaac von Sinclair
  • Margit Carstensen
    Mme von Proeck
  • Nina Hoss
    Marie Rätzer
  • Pierre Besson
    Friedrich Schelling
  • Tobias Langhoff
    Georg Hegel

Production company

  • Provobis Gesellschaft für Film und Fernsehen mbH (Berlin + Hamburg)
  • Südwestfunk (SWF) (Baden-Baden)
  • Filmove Studio »Tor« (Warszawa)
  • Flach Film S.A. (Paris)

Producer

  • Jürgen Haase

Alle Credits

Director

  • Nina Grosse

Assistant director

  • Holger Gimpel
  • Marek Brodzki

Script supervisor

  • Cornelia Meyer

Screenplay

  • Susanne Schneider

Director of photography

  • Egon Werdin

Assistant camera

  • Christian Paschmann

Steadycam operator

  • Michael Bartlett
  • Stefan Biebl

Lighting design

  • Mike Wächter

Set design

  • Grzegorz Piątkowski
  • Andrzej Przedworski

Make-up artist

  • Waldemar Pokromski

Costume design

  • Ulla Gothe

Costumes

  • Małgorzata Stefaniak
  • Ines Fritscher (Assistenz)

Editing

  • Patricia Rommel

Assistant editor

  • Anne Wagner

Sound editor

  • Jutta Nullmeyer (Dialoge)

Foley editor

  • Stefanie Geißler

Sound

  • Steffen Graubaum

Sound assistant

  • Vladimir Polak

Synch sound

  • Peter Notz

Foley artist

  • Jo Fürst

Audio mixing

  • Max Rammler-Rogall

Music

  • Biber Gullatz
  • Eckes Maltz

Conductor

  • Benjamin Köthe

Arrangement

  • Biber Gullatz
  • Eckes Maltz

Cast

  • Martin Feifel
    Friedrich Hölderlin
  • Marianne Denicourt
    Susette Gontard
  • Ulrich Mühe
    Jacob Gontard
  • Matthias Faber
    Henry Gontard
  • Zofia Saretok
    Mme Gontard d'Orville
  • Ulrich Matthes
    Baron Isaac von Sinclair
  • Margit Carstensen
    Mme von Proeck
  • Nina Hoss
    Marie Rätzer
  • Pierre Besson
    Friedrich Schelling
  • Tobias Langhoff
    Georg Hegel
  • Ueli Jäggi
    Germania
  • Dieter Landuris
    Marianne
  • Lech Dyblik
    Bürger
  • Piotr Gąsowski
    Bürger
  • Redbad Klynstra
    Georg Hammelmann
  • Zofia Merle
    Hotelwirtin in Driburg
  • Michał Pawlicki
    Buchhändler
  • Joachim Regelien
    Agent Wolffhardt
  • Wojciech Skibiński
    Dr. Müller
  • Małgorzata Kalamat
    Mariele
  • Laure Duthilleul
    Seifensusette

Production company

  • Provobis Gesellschaft für Film und Fernsehen mbH (Berlin + Hamburg)
  • Südwestfunk (SWF) (Baden-Baden)
  • Filmove Studio »Tor« (Warszawa)
  • Flach Film S.A. (Paris)

Producer

  • Jürgen Haase

Co-Producer

  • Werner Swossil
  • Susan Schulte
  • Jean-François Lepetit
  • Krzysztof Zanussi

Producer (TV)

  • Christian Ganderath

Executive producer

  • Peter Hahne

Unit production manager

  • Michał Szczerbic
  • Günter Fenner

Production assistant

  • Claudia Diedrich

Verleih

  • Progress Film-Verleih GmbH (Berlin)

Funding

  • MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH (Stuttgart)
  • FilmFörderung Hamburg GmbH (Hamburg)
  • Bundesministerium des Innern (Bonn)
  • Eurimages (Straßburg)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)
  • FilmFernsehFonds Bayern GmbH (FFFB) (München)

Shoot

    • 01.02.1997 - 15.01.1998: Deutschland, Frankreich, Polen
Duration:
3606 m, 132 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby Stereo Digital
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 17.07.1998, 80176, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 31.10.1998, Hof, Internationale Filmtage

Titles

Additional titles
  • Weiterer Titel (FR) Hölderlin, le cavalier de feu
  • Originaltitel (DE) Feuerreiter

Versions

Original

Duration:
3606 m, 132 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby Stereo Digital
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 17.07.1998, 80176, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 31.10.1998, Hof, Internationale Filmtage

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
131 min
Format:
DCP, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
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