In their essay, written for GDR television and containing numerous film excerpts, Fred Gehler and Ullrich Kasten take Wohlbrück's character of Balduin from the film Der Student von Prag as the starting point for a biographical and artistic...See moreIn their essay, written for GDR television and containing numerous film excerpts, Fred Gehler and Ullrich Kasten take Wohlbrück's character of Balduin from the film Der Student von Prag as the starting point for a biographical and artistic examination of the actor. A commenting voice explains, "It's more than a role... The fiction of the film interlocks with the reality of one's life. Times and spaces become blurred, the authentic and the allegory, the story with meaning permeate each other. Your own life put on the scales of time. The uncertainty of an artist's life. Thinking back, conjuring up the individual stations, reflections of light and shadow, of shine and fears. A pause here, a pause there..."
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