Revolution, passion and a deadly duel – Ulrich Peltzer tells the story of the famous mathematician Évariste Galois.
1832: Évariste Galois, 20 years young, unhappy in love, dies from a gunshot wound to the stomach. The night before the duel, he quickly jots down a mathematical theory that will make him world famous. The revolutionary and opponent of the king has just been released from prison...
Galois' story has everything it takes to make a gripping costume drama. For now, however, this film can only be seen in the images and reflections of a screenwriter who, during a sleepless night, jumps back and forth between the July Revolution and the present. A novel about our freedom and the wonderful possibilities of film and literature.
"a skilfully crafted novel – by no means a historical one [...] brilliantly executed, as one would expect." - Frankfurter Rundschau, Judith von Sternburg
"the sum total of all Ulrich Peltzer’s artistic endeavours [...]. It is, as it were, as though one were reading two novels in one, often seamlessly interwoven within Peltzer’s long, yet always manageable, sentence structures." - Deutschlandfunk Lesart, Ursula März
"'Lost Sleep' [develops] a surprising narrative pull – a powerful piece of literature!" - Tagesspiegel, Oliver Pfohlmann
