Sisters fall in love with outspoken writer. Year 2015 Theatrical Release 2015-01-09 Video Release 2015-05-12 Studio Music Box Films Genre Romance MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 170 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis Beloved Sisters depicts the unconventional romance between two aristocratic sisters and a rebellious poet who took the European literary world by storm in the late eighteenth century. As the German Enlightenment flourishes in Weimar, vibrant Caroline von Beulwitz Hannah Herszsprung finds herself in an unhappy marriage to provide for her mother and shy younger sister Charlotte von Lengefeld Henriette Confurius . When both sisters fall for outspoken writer Friedrich Schiller Florian Stetter , their desire ignites a journey of shared passion and creativity. Charlotte and Schiller marry so that the lovers may pursue their menage a trois under the guise of convention, but as Caroline reveals herself to be a talented author in her own right, the trio's fragile equilibrium is threatened and the sisters' once unbreakable connection is irrevocably changed. In this sweeping yet intimate romantic drama, which is also Germany's official submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, acclaimed director Dominik Graf illuminates the lives of two bold young women and one of classical literature's most celebrated figures with charm and contemporary energy. Director Dominik Graf Cast Dominik Graf; Hannah Herzsprung; Florian Stetter; Henriette Confurius; Claudia Messner; Ronald Zehrfeld; Maja Maranow; Anne Schafer; Andreas Pietschmann; Michael Wittenborn; Peter Schneider