Cordula Kablitz-Post's biopic 'Lou Andreas-Salome' introduces a woman whose distinguished career wound its way through those of Nietzsche, Freud and Rilke.

Lou Andreas-Salomé — a novelist, essayist, and psychoanalyst who won the hearts of Freud, Nietzsche, and Rilke — led an almost infinitely varied life.

Noted early-20th-century writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé gets the kind of crushingly conventional biopic she doesn’t deserve.

Get past its cumbersome title and you’ll find an absorbing, well-drawn biopic in “Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Audacity to Be Free,” an intriguing look at how a Russian-born novelist, poet and ...

Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free is an awkward mouthful of a title, but this biographical study of a trailblazing nineteenth-century intellectual offers a worthwhile history lesson ...

Lou Andreas-Salome was considered a brilliant peer of Sigmund Freud and one of the founding mothers of psychoanalysis. The toast of 1912 Vienna, the celebrity author and intellectual wrote more ...

Later, when Andreas-Salome's voice chimes in, the pair settle into a more introspective exchange, one frequently troubled by the insecure poet's vascillation between elation and despondency.

Starring Nicole Heesters, Liv Lisa Fries, Katharina Schüttler, Alexander Scheer, and Philipp Hauss.

Get past its cumbersome title and you’ll find an absorbing, well-drawn biopic in “Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Audacity to Be Free,” an intriguing look at how a Russian-born novel… ...

There’s a great line spoken by an aged Lou Andreas-Salomé (Nicole Heesters) to new friend and potential biographer Ernst Pfeiffer (Matthias Lier) upon his praise-fueled declaration that the way she ...