Giovanni Segantini - Magic of Light

Discover the monumental works of art by the anarchist Giovanni Segantini in the idealized natural setting of the high mountains. 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…

Keywords

  • Label: SWISS FILMS
  • Art
  • history
  • lifestyle
  • mindjazz pictures
  • natural
  • work

Actors

  • Bruno Ganz
  • Mona Petri

Director

  • Christian Labhart

Documentary


1h 22min


0 FSK

DE

Switzerland
2015
Discover the monumental works of art by the anarchist Giovanni Segantini in the idealized natural setting of the high mountains.

Discover the monumental works of art by the anarchist Giovanni Segantini in the idealized natural setting of the high mountains.


Discover the monumental works of art by the anarchist Giovanni Segantini in the idealized natural setting of the high mountains.


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