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The German-born writer Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946 for what is considered his masterpiece, The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel), which, ironically, was his last major work. Previously, he had achieved great fame with three novels, Demian in 1919, Siddhartha in 1922, and Steppenwolf in 1927. This documentary, which was filmed on-location in Montagnola, Switzerland, where he lived much of his life, focuses on the soul of the writer and includes commentary taken from the writer's autobiography and covers many personal aspects of the writer's life. Also we meet the writer's two sons, his editor, and the doctor who treated Hesse during his final years in Ticino.
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