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Finissage screening of Jonatan Briel's 1969 West German film on 35mm (86 min), his DFFB graduation feature made for under 12,000 DM, which imagines the last days of the poet Heinrich von Kleist and his double suicide with Henriette Vogel at the Kleiner Wannsee, set against the revolutionary mood of 1968 and visually inspired by Dreyer's Vampyr. It closes a film series and exhibition on Briel's visual worlds at the Bundesplatz-Kino, a neighbourhood cinema in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.