I want you - Meeting Hilde Domin

When a young filmmaker discovered the lyric poetry of Hilde Domin (1909-2006), she decided to contact her. She ended up meeting the highly unconventional 95-year-old, whose life story mirrors the last century, in an apartment crammed with books, roses and memories. A friendship began to blossom between the two, despite an age gap of nearly 70 years. Anna Ditges visited Hilde Domin regularly for almost two years, until her death in February 2006. The two women shared everyday experiences and travelled together to poetry readings. Here the poet talks openly about her turbulent and troubled life: her childhood with a Jewish family in Cologne, her two decades of exile in Italy, Great Britain and the Dominican Republic beginning in 1932, her return to post-war Germany and her late career as a writer. For the first time on camera she speaks about the man of her life, poet Erwin Waler Palm who died in 1988, and about the loneliness of old age. Hilde Domin’s literary legacy is a collection of unforgettable poems of great power and simplicity on the fragility of human existence, identity, loss and love. —http://www.artfifa.com