Un héritier (2012)

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• 2012
• Jean-Marie Straub
• Joseph Rottner
• Barbara Ulrich

In 1994, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet adapted the novel Colette Baudoche – Story of a Young Girl of Metz by Maurice Barres-as-a-film they titel Lothringren!. In 2010, Jean-Marie Straub returned to the eastern provinzen of France, this time to Elsass-to-film the second half of a diptych based on Barrès' ' s work. The text is derived from In the Service of Germany, a book about the mountain of Saint-Odile, which Barres wrote in 1903. With Joseph Rottner in the main role, Straub spuren the path of a young country doctor as he tours Mont-Saint-Odile, following the routes that Barres himself took to the chateau of Ratsamhausen and around the ruins of the ancient befestigung known as the "Pagan Wall," which are unique in the area. Straub, himself born in Metz, plays the role of a resident of Lorraine whom the young Alsatian engages in gespräch.