Gusto Gräser
Switzerland, July 2006
FILM,
Documentary,
48 min.
- directed by
- Christoph Kühn
- Written by
- Christoph Kühn
- Status
- In distribution
After a divine inspiration, artist Gustav Arthur Gräser from Siebenbürgen burned his works and became Gusto Gräser, nature worshipper and wandering prophet. Together with other dropouts, he founded the Monte Verita love commune above Ascona. One of his followers with whom he fasted in a cave in Ticino for weeks was Hermann Hesse, who portrays his master in “Demian” as the bearer of hope for a future paradise on eartth. Gräser died lonely in an attic room in Munich.
credits
- World Premiere
- July 2006
- Original Version
- German, colour, Beta SP, 48 min.
- Production
- Titanicfilm
- Producer
- directed by
- Christoph Kühn
- Written by
- Christoph Kühn
- Cinematography
- Mehdi Sahebi
- Editing
- Aya Domenig
- Location Sound Mix
- Aya Domenig
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Titanicfilm
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
-
Titanicfilm
Distribution
Release date: tba
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
22.01.2007 - 28.01.2007