Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert

Direct from the 2023 Berlinale, Vicky Krieps shines as the remarkable and charismatic Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann in this elegant drama. 

Though still young, the rebellious poet is at the peak of her career when she meets the famous Swiss playwright Max Frisch in Paris in the summer of 1958. Over the next four years across Zurich, Rome and Berlin their love is passionate, but professional and personal friction begins to disrupt the harmony. 

When Ingeborg struggles, her friends are there to help, including composer Hans Werner Henze and the young Adolf Opel, a Viennese journalist and man of literature. So, when Adolf invites her to join his upcoming journey to Egypt, she happily accepts. It is on this journey that she reignites her spirit and finds the way back to her writing. 

A stylish biopic from veteran Margarethe von Trotta delves into the hopes, dreams and loves in the literature and life of Bachmann.