The film is adapted from a play by Cyrille Offermans Lichtenberg scenes at the dawn of a new era". Although the protagonist shares some features with the experimental physicist and writer George Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) who wrote the famous Sudelbücher and numerous letters the film does not pretend any historical accuracy with respect to the real Lichtenberg but focuses on Offermans' hybrid [partial fictitious] personage. The result is not an interplay between fact and fiction but a sort of view of Lichtenberg mouthing some 19th- and 20th- century authors he couldn't have known strictly speaking but whose alleged fantastic formulations seem to follow from his own writings in a natural way.
CANYON
