There are two primary reasons why Die geliebten Schwestern attracted me so much. First off it paints a fabulous picture of 18th century Weimar Germany which in the 19th century would become one of the great classical musical centres of Germany. I was most curious as to how the city would be portrayed. The other is the portrait of Friedrich Schiller, who next to Goethe, was the greatest literary figure of Germany's Romantic period. The young Schiller figure portrayed by Florian Stetter was only fairly accurate having studied his life and works as an undergraduate. I would have preferred a more serious, intellectual nature to the man. This long melée of a movie didn't move me as much as I was expecting. The very unorthodox love story of the two sisters and poet was interesting but anything but inspirational. I can only repeat I was aspiring to a much more serious Schiller whose great dramatic and other literary works helped spread the Romantic period of literature throughout Europe. Indeed this is a film of enormous romance, but, to my mind I would have preferred the label of historical drama. It is, after all, Schiller and his great literary reputation which brings this German fare to our attention.
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