Infanta

Love and war are in the air. Kurt Lukas, an internationally successful photographer's model, appears on an outlying island of the Philippines during the elections. Visiting a Jesuit mission, he meets five missionaries, referred to by the locals as "the old ones". When Lukas falls in love with their cook, a young virgin named Mayla, the romance revives the old ones' memories of their own experiences with love, inspires the young novice to question celibacy and prompts bouts of jealousy in the local chief of police.

'Infanta' is adapted from the bestselling novel by Bodo Kirchhoff ('Manila', 'Mein letzter Film' a.o.) translated into 14 languages.

Some comments in the media on Kirchhoff's 'Infanta':

„The story opens like a movie: A wide shot of a dusty street, its emptiness hints at the heat of noon. Pan to a taxi coming to a halt. A close-up: A stranger enters the scene.“
Werner Fuld, FAZ

„Kirchhoff converts a tropical romance into an exploration of the deformed emotions and neuroses of our time, a razor-sharp portrait of a narcissist, whose life fails because of his self obsession... A verbally and formally brilliant love story. Kirchhoff´s novel could be considered the most significant German novel which has been written – since Süskind´s 'Perfume' - in recent times."
Stern

„His entire talent, his precise observational gift, the elegance of his style, his mastery of the dry-witted point and the erotic refinement, all this Bodo Kirchhoff has brought to bear in his great love story.“
Martin Hielscher, Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt

Nominated by the German Film Academy for the German Film Award in the category "Best unfilmed screenplay"