CinemaOSMovie · 2015

Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts

65%(2)IMDbDocumentary

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…

Directed byChristian Labhart

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Released
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DE
Released
June 11, 2015

Featuring

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2 credited
Starring
Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

Voice of Segantini

Mona Petri

Mona Petri

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Directed by
Christian Labhart

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