A lost 1970 German TV poem-film that's basically a ghost in the machine.
German TV-movie that includes poems by Nelly Sachs.
Writing
Nelly Sachs' Nobel Prize-winning poetry adapted for screen.
Direction
Willi Schmidt's nearly vanished experimental TV work.
Director
Willi Schmidt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nelly Sachs won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature; this rare screen adaptation came four years later during German TV's brief experimental golden age.
Director Willi Schmidt made primarily documentaries; this narrative experiment remains virtually impossible to locate, with no known surviving prints in public archives.
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