Russian roulette in the cinema
Jens-Daniel Herzog directs Lohengrin in Frankfurt ****½
Author : Jos Hermans
How do you explain Elsa's rock-solid belief in a make-believe reality from which a knight will come to redeem her from a death sentence? In Hamburg, Peter Konwitschny interpreted "Einsam in trüben Tagen" as the wet dream of a teenager. Director Jens-Daniel Herzog wonders: aren't we all gro…
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