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Germany’s official submission for this year’s foreign film Oscar is a gorgeously mounted costume drama about an unconventional love affair. Set in late 18th-century Weimar, the movie chronicles how two aristocratic sisters both loved German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller, carrying on a carefree ménage à trois—for a while at least. “Pushes heritage cinema in new, aesthetically bold directions. Beloved Sisters is the modern film about the German Enlightenment…Graf has created nothing less than a romantic national epic.” –Film Comment.