Klimt & Schiele - Eros and Psyche

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Director:Michele Mally
Length:90 minutes
Genre:Documentary

Klimt & Schiele - Eros and Psyche

Klimt & Schiele - Eros and Psyche; Michele Mally, 2018, versions: OR,CS, languages: ita

Director: Michele Mally • Commenting: Lorenzo Richelmy

n the night of October 31st, in the bed of his home, Egon Schiele dies, one of the 20 million deaths caused by the Spanish flu. He dies looking at the invisible evil in the face, in the only he can do: painting it. He is 28 years old. Only a few months earlier, the main hall of the Secession building had welcomed his works: 19 oil paintings and 29 drawings. His first successful exhibition, a celebration of a new painting idea that portrays the restlessness and desires of mankind.A few months earlier, his teacher and friend Gustav Klimt had died. From the turn of the century, he had fundamentally changed the feeling of art and founded a new group: the Secession. The documentary film Klimt & Schiele - Eros and Psyche, will recount this extraordinary season: a magical moment for art, literature, and music, in which new ideas are circulated, Freud discovers the drives of the psyche, and women begin to claim their independence.

Length: 90 min

Year: 2018

Country of origin:

  • Italy

Language version:

OR - Original version (italian)
CS - Czech subtitles

Director: Michele Mally • Commenting: Lorenzo Richelmy

n the night of October 31st, in the bed of his home, Egon Schiele dies, one of the 20 million deaths caused by the Spanish flu. He dies looking at the invisible evil in the face, in the only he can do: painting it. He is 28 years old. Only a few months earlier, the main hall of the Secession building had welcomed his works: 19 oil paintings and 29 drawings. His first successful exhibition, a celebration of a new painting idea that portrays the restlessness and desires of mankind.A few months earlier, his teacher and friend Gustav Klimt had died. From the turn of the century, he had fundamentally changed the feeling of art and founded a new group: the Secession. The documentary film Klimt & Schiele - Eros and Psyche, will recount this extraordinary season: a magical moment for art, literature, and music, in which new ideas are circulated, Freud discovers the drives of the psyche, and women begin to claim their independence.

Year: 2018

Country of origin:

  • Italy

Language version:

OR - Original version (italian)
CS - Czech subtitles