When Nietzsche Wept

The first 20 minutes of this film are torture! I don't mean to disrespect anyone, however, the actress playing Lou Salome was awful. Perhaps that's why we saw so little of this character, I have a feeling scenes with her were cut dramatically (no pun intended). Also, the Dr's secretary suffered from a severe case of hamming it up. While the ideas & dialogues were interesting, and some of the acting was very good, it took much too long to get where it was going. Scenes are disjointed & there is a huge portion where we don't see the main character but there is no real explanation for this. The cinematography was not "brilliant" as someone here has suggested. The accents were more fake than a bad weave. To be honest, I have seen TV movies that were better than this, some of them starring Armand Assante. Go rent one of those!