Based on the double suicide of German romantic poet Heinrich von Kleist and Henrietta Vogel, this period piece is a wry denunciation of dying for love.
After being arrested for living illegally in Belgium, a Russian woman finds herself on an earth-shattering journey to escape prison and reunite with her son.
Peter Greenaway’s erotically-charged drama follows a young woman who finds pleasure having calligraphy pained on her, and the revenge she seeks on the man who exploited her father.
