Frankenstein

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Based on the gothic novel by Mary Shelley - 14+

The years after 1815 are known as the "time without a summer". The Indonesian volcano Tambora hurls huge quantities of ash into the atmosphere. The sky darkens all over the world. Because of these storms, the leading figures of English Romanticism are trapped in a house on Lake Geneva: Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, among others. In the evening, they sit together by the fireplace, discuss the latest scientific findings, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, and start a competition: who can invent the scariest horror story? The "outsider", nineteen-year-old Shelley, wins with her story of the Faustian scientist Frankenstein, who cobbles together an artificial being from corpse parts.

The result is one of the great core narratives of fantastic literature - some say the first science fiction novel - and the prototype of every horror film character. But "Frankenstein" is also a profoundly humanistic tale about the core of humanity, a clever reflection on the limits and responsibility of science and a story about the relationship between nature and culture.