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Heinrich von Kleist

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Noun1.Heinrich von KleistHeinrich von Kleist - German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811)


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HEINRICH VON KLEIST tells the story of a famous dancer who, praising the marionette theater, suggests that a mechanical figure could be designed to "perform a dance that neither he nor any other outstanding dancer of his time .
The film, a western morality tale, was written by Cusack's father Dick, based on the book Michael Kolhaas by Heinrich von Kleist.
And like a modern Gepetto, Porter has brought her toys to life: Two videos capture with fixed camera shots perversely tender theatrical situations--the love between a boy and the Renaissance man in a postcard (For You, 1999) or a little boy trapped under a black shoe (Drum Solo, 2000), all instilled with that unaffected gracefulness that Heinrich von Kleist once detected in puppet shows.
 
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