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DE, 2021
Based on Petrarch’s account of his 14th-century mountain ascent, which has been called the “birth of alpinism,” as well as on the work of Brigitte Reimann, who decisively shaped the genre of arrival literature that had grown up in the GDR, Film invites us to examine the idea of climax, of caesura, of reorientation and new orientation. The unequal pair of writers inscribe themselves in a mountain story between Provençal nature and socialist everyday production, between beginning and end, arrival and farewell.
