1978 · drama · historical · biography
The Tailor from Ulm
Directed by Edgar Reitz2h 0m1978
The true story of the Bavarian Tailor Albrecht Berblinger who, after a strange encounter with a balloon starts building a flying machine. Although not an engineer by profession, he never gives up. No matter how many obstacles are put in his way nor how many failures he endures, his ardour is never dampened. He continues with his dream to fly like a bird.
Our read: The Tailor from Ulm (1978) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · historical · biography entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / historical, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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