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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #48. Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch

Published on January 17, 2023

Bachmann & Frisch

Veteran German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta puts her focus on a feminist author who wrote on women’s issues in the post-war period and is known for being radical. Moving between Jordan, Luxembourg, Cologne, Vienna, Zurich and Rome between the months of March to June, Bachmann & Frisch stars Vicky Krieps and Ronald Zehrfeld. Von Trotta wrote the project.

Gist: This focuses on author Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) and her turbulent life. Bachmann travelled a great deal during her lifetime, wrote a number of radical texts and gave many lectures. She was, moreover, involved in a passionate romantic relationship with Swiss author Max Frisch.

Release Date/Prediction: This will have a major film festival premiere.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).