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Klimt (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Moscow International Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
126 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Raoul Ruiz

Written By:
Raoul Ruiz
Gilbert Adair

Actors:
John Malkovich ..... Klimt
Veronica Ferres ..... Midi
Stephen Dillane ..... Secretary
Saffron Burrows ..... Lea de Castro
Sandra Ceccarelli ..... Serena Lederer
Nikolai Kinski ..... Egon Schiele
Aglaia Szyszkowitz ..... Mizzi
Joachim Bißmeier ..... Hugo Moritz
Ernst Stötzner ..... Minister Hartl
Paul Hilton ..... Duke Octave
Annemarie Düringer ..... Klimt's Mother
Irina Wanka ..... Berta Zuckerkandl
Florentín Groll ..... Messerschmidt
Miguel Herz-Kestranek ..... Dr. Stein
Marion Mitterhammer ..... Klimt's Sister

Synopsis:

A character study and a meditation on art in a time of opulence and syphilis. Gustave Klimt (1862-1918) lies in hospital, dying. In reveries, he recalls the early 1900s: it's fin de siècle Vienna. At the World Exposition in Paris, Klimt meets Georges Méliès, who does a moving picture for him, and Klimt falls under the spell of a woman who may be Lea de Castro. We see Klimt in his studio; we meet his mother and sister, who suffer from mental illness. We watch Klimt the libertine. On his deathbed and as a younger man, he imagines things as well: encounters with ministers and waiters and with women who are willing participants in his pleasures. Is this the source of art?

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 03 November, 2015.