Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts

Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 11, 2015

Genres

Documentary

User Score

65%

Original Title

Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts

Director

Christian Labhart

Description

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…