Black Mandala has released a poster and trailer for Traumnovelle, the erotic thriller from director Florian Frerichs, which is a loose adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Dream Story, one of the inspiration’s for Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
The film stars Nikolai Kinski and Laurine Price as Jakob and Amelia, a couple who find their marriage suffocating under unspoken desires until Jakob discovers an erotic secret society, leading him to a masked gathering of forbidden pleasures with cruel consequences.
Also featuring in the cast are Nicole Nagel, Nike Martens, Patrick Mölleken, Detlev Buck, Katharina Gerhardt, Rodney Charles, Bruno Eyron, and Nora Islei. Watch the trailer below…
Jakob and Amelia’s marriage is suffocating under unspoken desires and growing emptiness, held together only by their child, Henny. One night, Amelia seeks escape, while Jakob stumbles into a surreal odyssey of temptation and danger—an encounter with a grieving daughter, a descent into a hidden underworld, and an invitation to a masked gathering of forbidden pleasures with cruel consequences. A mysterious woman’s sacrifice saves him, but the night leaves him haunted.
Determined to reclaim what he lost, he retraces his steps by daylight—only to find every door closed, every figure vanished, and the truth slipping further away. Broken and disillusioned, he returns home, where Amelia finally confesses her secret dreams, cutting deeper than any nightmare. As they awaken from the illusions that nearly consumed them, they realize their journey has only just begun—toward something real, something true, beyond the shadows of the night.
Traumnovelle is coming soon from Black Mandala Films.
