WER WEISS SCHON, WAS EIN LEBEN IST?

An actress is cast to bring Paula Modersohn-Becker, one of Germany’s most influential painters, to life.

As she immerses herself ever deeper into the artist’s world, encountering key figures such as Otto Modersohn, Clara Westhoff-Rilke, and Rainer Maria Rilke, the lines between role and reality, portrayal and identification, begin to dissolve.

Accompanied by international experts and biographers, the journey illuminates the art-historical landscape while occasionally engaging in a reflective, self-aware dialogue with the film itself.

WHO TRULY KNOWS WHAT A LIFE IS? is Annelie Boroş and Vera Brückner’s first feature film as co-directors after working together on the 2015 short film MARS CLOSER.