Basic Info
Title:
Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen
Genre:
Drama
Country:
Austria, Luxembourg
Language:
German
Running
time: 110 minutes
Release
date: 26 September 2016 (Zurich Film Festival)
Staff
Director:
Dieter Berner
Produced by: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Alexander
Glehr, Bady Minck, Franz Novotny
Screenplay:
Hilde Berger, Dieter Berner
Cinematography:
Carsten Thiele
Music:
André Dziezuk
Editor:
Robert Hentschel
Cast
Noah Saavedra as Egon Schiele
Maresi Riegner as Gerti Schiele
Valerie Pachner as Wally Neuzil
Marie Jung as Edith Harms
Larissa Breidbach as Moa Mandu
Elisabeth Umlauft as Adele Harms
Cornelius Obonya as Gustav Klimt
Summary
“Egon Schiele: Tod und
Mädchen” is a 2016 Austrian-Luxembourgish biographical film directed by Dieter
Berner. The film tells the story of the life of the Austrian painter Egon
Schiele, and was premiered at the Zurich Film Festival on September 26, 2016.
The film was nominated for Best Feature Film, Best Actress, Best Director and
Best Screenplay at the 2017 Austrian Film Prize.
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| Egon Schiele |
Plot
The film tells the story between the painter Egon Schiele and five women who were important to his life, his younger sister Gerti, his lover Wally Neuzil, his wife Edith Harms, her sister Adele, and dancer Moa Mandu.
After his father's death, 16-year-old Egon and 12-year-old Gerti traveled to the sea in Trieste to paint, and Gerti becomes his first muse. In the following years, he built a reputation as a provocative artist, whose works were considered a scandal in Vienna society, and who was arrested for seducing a 13-year-old girl.
Despite all of them, Gustav Klimt, his patron and fatherly friend, tells Egon the great future ahead. Egon falls in love with Wally Neuzil, and later, Neuzil is immortalized by Egon in his painting “Death and the Maiden”. In 1915, he marries his neighbor Edith Harms, and she asks Egon to break up with Neuzil.
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| Death and the Maiden, Egon Schiele (1915) |
Shortly before the end of World War I, Egon was dying from the Spanish flu in the fall of 1918. While Gerti tries to save her brother's life, Egon recalls other women, who had a great influence on him and his art.
Movie
Review
“Beautiful, erotic, sad, and poetic”
“A sketch”
“Worthwhile”
Thank you.
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