Hermann Hesse, Nobel Prize winner in 1946, is not only the world’s most widely read German-language author of all time, with a total of more than 100 million books in print, but also, with Karl Marx, perhaps the most influential. The documentary follows his readers’ trail and at the same time the trail of the author who, like no other, has managed to become a role model.
Andreas Ammer
Writer, Director

Udo Lindenberg
himself

August Zirner
himself

Denis Scheck
himself

Konstantin Wecker
himself
Peter Härtling
himself
Jo Baier
himself
Roger W. Strauss
Theodore Ziolkowski
Andreas Neumann
Narrator
John Candy: I Like Me78%
A Plastic Ocean75%
The Class of ‘9271%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
McQueen74%
Being James Bond77%
Sherman's March67%
Voyeur59%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Night Will Fall76%
For the Love of Spock73%
Hawking76%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Public Speaking70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Harmontown66%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
My Mom Jayne80%
Directed by John Ford70%