Karl und Anna

In war and in love – Leonhard Frank's famous tale. Karl, having escaped from Russian captivity during the Great War, knocks on the door of his fellow prisoner Richard's wife. His friend had spoken so vividly about her that Karl has fallen in love with Anna. Now he stands in her Berlin kitchen and pretends to be Richard. Even though he has the same profession, the same height, hair, and eye color, Anna knows that the man who suddenly appears before her after years is not Richard. Yet the stranger knows all her stories and slowly frees her from the isolation that the war has imposed on her – until one day Richard stands at the door. With a contribution from Heinrich Mann: "In this adventure of the soul, love is the great outcome. Imagination is the path to it." Heinrich Mann: "Frank's sensitive, unobtrusive narrative art supports the reader until they fully engage and empathize." Erich Kästner.