The remarkable 83-year-old Helga Schubert lives in the remote landscape between Schwerin and Wismar. Her days are filled with the loving care of her sick 95-year-old husband, Johannes Helm, once a professor of psychology and passionate painter. But amidst this rural tranquility, Helga is anything but idle. Every day she dedicates herself to her passion, writing.
England, 1960. The Crown sues the publisher Penguin Books in order to ban the publication of Lady Ch...
In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated...
Takes students to England to show them the land that inspired many great writers... the London of Ch...
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Documentary about author Christopher Isherwood, in which he is interviewed about his life and work a...
Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive...
The thoughts, words, and compelling presence of Gertrude Stein flows richly through this portrait of...
The Picture of Dorian Gray, the seminal work of Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), continues to f...
An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on ...
The prodigious genesis of a monument of world literature, too often reduced to its popular success, ...
In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south c...
A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema ...
About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts h...