Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized alpine landscapes. In the course of his lifetime, he climbed ever higher in search of more light, finally dying at 41 in an Engadin alpine hut at 2700m. The film offers insight into his difficult childhood and boyhood, shares his inner processes and crises as a painter, as well as his contradictory dealings with motherly love and eroticism – and ultimately his desperate struggle against death…
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Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized alpine landscapes. In the course of his lifetime, he climbed ever higher in search of more light, finally dying at 41 in an Engadin alpine hut at 2700m. The film offers insight into his difficult childhood and boyhood, shares his inner processes and crises as a painter, as well as his contradictory dealings with motherly love and eroticism – and ultimately his desperate struggle against death…
Tanguy, le retour
4.4
Sabata
6.2
Decalogue VII
7.5
Il Grido
7.5
Like Mother, Like Daughter
5.7
Knife+Heart
5.9
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
7.1
And Breathe Normally
6.7
Son of a Rich
7.0
The Man with the Iron Heart
6.6
Memoir of War
6.1
Up to His Ears
7.1
An Autumn Afternoon
7.8
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
7.1
2 Days in Paris
6.2
The Man from London
7.2
The Girl in the Spider's Web
6.1
House of Spoils
5.5
Foreign Correspondent
7.0
Resolution
6.3