Director: Jürgen Flimm
Script: Stefan Dähnert
Photography: Holly Fink
Editor: Ulrike Leipold
Music: Frank and Stefan Wulff
Production Design: Christian Bussmann
Casting: Heta Mantscheff
Sound: Andreas Wölki
Principal Cast: Tobias Moretti, Teresa Weißbach, Julia Stemberger, August Zirner, Armin Rohde, Sylvester Groth et. al.
Producer: Susanne Ottersbach-Flimm
Executive Producer: Sytze van der Laan
Commissioning Editor WDR: Wolf-Dietrich Brücker
Commissioning Editor ARTE: Hans-Robert Eisenhauer
Production: Studio Hamburg Produktion für Film und Fernsehen in co-production with WDR, ARTE & ORF supported by Filmstiftung NRW
Distribution Germany: Studio Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 668 855 13
Fax: +49 40 668 854 28
Selected Filmography Jürgen Flimm: Der Schwierige, 1991; Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution, 1990; Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt, 1989; Die Wupper, 1985; Polnischer Sommer, 1981; Turandot oder der Kongress der Weißwäscher, 1975; Ein Herz und eine Seele, 1973.
It was the age when reason was all the rage and everyone was after Enlightenment when playwright Heinrich von Kleist wrote "Das Käthchen von Heilbronn", Germany’s iconic chivalrous tale. Theatre director Jürgen Flimm has taken this linguistic masterpiece about love, destiny and betrayal out of knightly obscurity and turned it into a radically contemporary corporate thriller in which greed, blind faith in progress and the unconditional power of love
all collide with brute force. Tobias Moretti and a shining stellar ensemble conquer the unreconstructed Kleistian language with bravura. The former colliery "Zeche Zollverein" in Essen provides a magnificent setting for Kleist’s
ever-current drama of destiny.