01 Jan 2002
Pod hasprunskou slivkou
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Hermann Hesse – Superstar
Hermann Hesse, Nobel Prize winner in 1946, is not only the world’s most widely read German-language author of all time, with a total of more than 100 million books in print, but also, with Karl Marx, perhaps the most influential. The documentary follows his readers’ trail and at the same time the trail of the author who, like no other, has managed to become a role model.
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Udo Lindenberg himself
August Zirner himself
Denis Scheck himself
Konstantin Wecker himself
Peter Härtling himself
Roger W. Strauss Theodore Ziolkowski Andreas Neumann Narrator
Patrick Blank Narrator
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