The Man Who Knew 75 Languages
“Learning a language is like falling in love.”
Synopsis
Learning a language is like falling in love. But when this great linguist's love for a princess was denied, he just fell in love with her 75 times more. The film is about the remarkable life of a poor priest's son – Georg Julius Justus Sauerwein and his life-long love for Princess Elisabeth of Wied, later Queen of Romania. This is a psychological drama about a brilliant but complex man. His humanitarian values were far ahead of his time. In his day, he was the most vilified person in the German press. Based on Sauerwein's letters and other written sources and narrated from the first person, the film merges the classic fairytale with documentary realism, both in script and visual design, pushing the boundaries of documentary.
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Shot by Gvidas Kovera
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17 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Robert Gunschmann
as Georg Sauerwein
Justas Valinskas
as Georg Sauerwein
Robert Clark
as Georg Sauerwein as a boy
Anastasija Marcenkaite
as Princess Elizabeth of Wied
Valda Bickute
as Elisabeth Queen Of Romania
Julia Streich
as Princess Elisabeth
Kaja Sesterhenn
as Queen Elisabeth of Romania
Claire Perreau
Markus Czygan
Jean Claude Knobbe
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4Other crew
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