Lenz (1982)

 

An adaptation of George Buchner's novella, "Lenz", chronicling the poet Jakob Lenz's slide into insanity and madness. The setting is transposed from 18th century Germany to New York in the early 1980s.

From memory: Georg Büchner's Lenz, a classic novella of German literature, is imaginatively and thoughtfully set into present-day New York, told in sparse, but intensive images and conveying a person lost in a large, nihilistic environment.