The Greater Circulation

Love means protecting the solitude of another

1908, Paris. Over three fever-dream nights in the Hotel Biron, poet Rainer Maria Rilke encounters the ghost of his good friend, artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died shortly after giving birth to her first child. In response to this haunting, Rilke writes his epic prose lament, "Requiem for a Friend", as a tribute to Paula and to women torn between choosing a life sacrificed to Art or to Motherhood. One hundred years later, three women - a painter, an actress and a dancer - and a theatre director prepare to stage Rilke's "Requiem" in Berkeley California as abstract performance ritual.

• Release date
• January 1, 2005
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Antero Alli

Cast

Antero Alli Rilke (Voice) Thia (Sylvi) Alli Judith, The Artist

L

Lloyd Bricken Rainer Maria Rilke

F

Felecia Faulkner Rose, The Actress & Mother

L

Leah Kahn Malik, The Dancer

S

Slobodan Dan Paich Auguste Rodin

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Lee Vogt Roland, The Director