Peter Handkes has a full 19 scripts in his portfolio, many of them written for - or in collaboration with - the German director Wim Wenders, including an adaptation of his own novel The Goalie's Horror at Penalty Park (1972). The biggest contribution to the medium, however, was the screenplay for Himmel over Berlin (1987), the film that made Wenders one of the most important regimen names in the 1980s. The story of a molested angel who falls in love with an ordinary mortal, and exchanges his wings for human love, swept clean on most film galleries and became an obvious favorite for us black-clad movie scientists with Thåström hats cooked on snow '.
Wenders or Handke have the existential pondering and the low tempo in common, a combo that was raised in square footage in their latest collaboration, the potent sleep drug The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez, which came just three years ago.
Olga Tokarczuk has not been as active in the industry, but has yet written two feature films, both a kind of mystery drama, The Vanishing from 2011 and Villebråd 2017. The former never reached Swedish cinema, but so did Berlin-winner Villebråd, an adaptation of her own novel Control your plow over the legs of the dead, directed by one of the Polish filmmakers, Agnieszka Holland. The protagonist is a robust Miss Marple type, a dissident who, like the author, is a stone in the shoe of power. It is a peculiar, natural-lyrical beauty where the struggle is between the ordinary man and the corrupt state, but also between the sexes - because it is, on the whole, the men who hold, and mickle, with that power.
It is no surprise that more and more Nobel winners have had their works filmed. The film and TV world has always been looking for good ideas to put on a big or small screen, and given the idea drought in the film world is becoming increasingly evident (with all the remakes, sequels, adaptations, etc) and the industry increasingly keen (read desperately) in their hunt for audience-winning spreads, it will not get any worse.
Which in itself is wonderful for us movie geeks who increasingly answer the question of "we read the latest Nobel winner?" Can answer: No but I have seen the movie.