Film

Wife, loyal companion, and support in daily life, she earns most of the regular income at a government organisation. The job does not correspond to her musical training (she plays the violin). Influenced by the image of women in the post-war era, she describes her marriage as a working partnership and refers to herself as her husband's colleague.

A doctor of chemistry and enterpreneur who actively integrated herself into her husband's intellectual circle. She took minutes of meetings, corresponded with intellectuals close to her - such as Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch - and ran the Institute for Socail Reserach alongside her husband. They returned to the University of Frankfurt in the early 1950s.

She is an inquisitive and ambitious historian who has been entrusted with digitising the Kracauer estate. She hopes to make a sensational discovery in the archive. She will introduce you to the material and take you on a journey through time.

Lili and Friedel are eternal souls and time travelers. They try to influence the historian's work to ensure that their historical relevance is depicted positively. Friedel engages with past conflicts, while Lili fights for her representaton in the archive to be accurate.

A jewish intellectual and former editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Zeitung. He was forced to flee from the Nazis and struggled to find work in New York for a long time. In addition to writing occasional articles, he published significant theoretical works on film. He developed his philosophy through intensive discussions with his friends and his wife, who preferred to remain in the background.

Philosopher and composer. He and Max Horkheimer are considered the leading representatives of critical theory. In 1938, Adorno moved to New York and, together with his friend Leo Löwenthal, took over the editorship of the Journal of Social Research at the Institute for Social Research. He later headed the institute. Adorno has been friends with Siegfried Kracauer, who was 15 years his senior, since their youth in Frankfurt.