DAS EINHORN

‘Scenes that glow with intensity: I can only be happy to have provided the fuel and building material,’ says Martin Walser about the film version of his novella, which was ripped off in just eight days - in which everything seems to succeed, even though it could slip out of his hands in the next moment. The story of an author under pressure to succeed. For the sequel to his bestseller, he explores female sexuality - with fatal consequences for his own identity. The attempt to make himself the hero of his own novel is doomed to failure. (red)