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Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts

06/11/2015

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0hr 0min

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Documentary

STORY

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…

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Bruno Ganz
  • Mona Petri

    Director

  • Christian Labhart

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Switzerland

LANGUAGES

  • German

Cast

Bruno Ganz

Voice of Segantini

Mona Petri