SYNOPSIS
At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an American system that is striving after 1945 for global hegemony, using all available means. Was it madness to believe in man’s liberty or was Reich simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and being a holistic global thinker, accurately observing far-reaching socio-political linkages? Ten years after his mysterious death, his writings, once burnt by the US FDA, become an important source of inspiration for a ’68 generation in revolt.
CAST
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Julia Jentsch
Jamie Sives
Jeanette Hain
Birgit Minichmayr
Kenny Doughty
Gary Lewis
Max Deacon
Shaun Nicholas Aylward
Michael J. Shannon
Markus Schleinzer
CREW
Director Antonin Svoboda
Screenplay Antonin Svoboda
DoP Martin Gschlacht
Sound Odo Grötschnig
Editing Oliver Neumann
Production Design Katharina Wöppermann
Costume Design Tanja Hausner
Producers Antonin Svoboda, Martin Gschlacht, Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr