Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts

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Giovanni Segantini - Magie de la Lumière
Giovanni Segantini - Magia della Luce

Switzerland, June 2015
FILM, Documentary, 82 min.

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directed by: Christian Labhart
Written by: Christian Labhart
Status: In distribution

Artist, anarchist, drop-out, sans papiers: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental works in the idealised image of nature of an alpine landscape. In the course of his lifetime he climbed ever higher in quest of more light. He died at the age of 41 in an alpine hut at 2700m in the Engadine. The film provides 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.

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World Premiere: June 2015
Original Version: German (japanese/italian/french/raeto-romance/german subtitles), colour, DCP, 82 min.
ISAN: 0000-0003-F7C4-0000-T-0000-0000-O
Production: Christian Labhart, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, 3sat Schweiz
Producer: Christian Labhart
directed by: Christian Labhart
Written by: Christian Labhart
Cinematography: Pio Corradi
Editing: Annette Brütsch
Sound Editing: Reto Stamm
Sound Design: Reto Stamm
Re-Recording Mix: Renzo D'Alberto
Music: Paul Giger
Location Sound Mix: Dieter Meier