On the Cross

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Max Liebermann, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and August von Pettenkofen. An actress and a village woodcarver who plays Christ in the Oberammergau Passion Play meet between performances, and neither can quite step back out of the part. Von Hillern's mother was an actress and playwright, and she herself had been on the stage, which is why the theatr...