Zeichnen bis zur Raserei
Switzerland / Germany, May 2001
FILM,
Documentary,
80 min.
- directed by
- Michael Trabitzsch
- Written by
- Michael Trabitzsch
- Status
- In distribution
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is the unvarnished recorder of a modern world that hit him between the eyes with its speed, machines, the monster city, whores, the teeming masses of humanity – an overload of stimuli. The city in question was his home town Berlin. His need to get involved in this world was impulsive, existentialist, always urgent. The war and its mass hypnotism utterly overwhelmed Kirchner, who became one of the first exiles of the century with a strong sense of where mankind's “journey” was leading. Physically broken and half mad with the anxiety of having to return to the war, Kirchner left Berlin for the Swiss Alps in the region of Davos, where he remained until his death. The film tells the life story of this painter who swallowed whole the terrible age in which he lived and was ultimately consumed by its flames.
credits
- World Premiere
- May 2001
- Original Version
- German, colour, 35mm, 80 min.
- Production
- Catpics, Prounen Filmproduktion, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
- Producer
- directed by
- Michael Trabitzsch
- Written by
- Michael Trabitzsch
- Editing
- Mirjam Krakenberger
- Location Sound Mix
- Martin Witz
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Telepool GmbH