Treffen in Travers (Rendezvous in Travers)

1988, color, 100 min. Feature
Dir.: Michael Gwisdek
Script: Michael Gwisdek, Thomas Knauf
Camera: Claus Neumann
Music: Reiner Bredemeyer
Cast: Hermann Beyer, Corinna Harfouch, Uwe Kockisch
VHS-PAL, no subtitles: rental information

Synopsis:

In the fall of 1793, the essayist and naturalist Georg Forster meets his estranged wife, Therese, and her lover Ferdinand Huber. Over the course of three days and nights, and in the shadow of the revolutionary events in Paris, a private melodrama takes place in Travers, Switzerland. Shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.