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Marc Chagall (/ʃəˈɡɑːl/ shə-GAHL;Russian: Марк Заха́рович Шага́л; (7 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985), was a Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. He was an early modernist, and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.
Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century". According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's preeminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra.
Actors: Tony Calabretta (actor), Michael Rudder (actor), Alain Goulem (actor), Walter Massey (actor), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Tom Rack (actor), Christopher Heyerdahl (actor), Maury Chaykin (actor), William Hurt (actor), Matt Craven (actor), Rémy Girard (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Noel Burton (actor), Dorothée Berryman (actress), Vlasta Vrana (actor),
Plot: After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry starts en emergency rescue commission to raise funds and lobby to help intellectuals and artists, especially Jews, escape from Vichy France -where the Pétain government avoid occupation only by utter collaboration- to the US, and for lack of a better volunteer personally sets out in search of them. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt personally overcomes the reticence of the State Department. In Marseille he finds the people he specifically looked for, such as Marc Chagall, already housed by Harry Bingham, a Jewish US consulate official so he starts screening less obvious candidates and examines with Miriam Davenport and a German social democrat they pass for US clergyman Beamish how some can be rescued legally, others via a clandestine route, while colonel Joubert's State Police is at their trace...
Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, artist, character-name-in-title, nazi, refugee, two-word-title, world-war-twoActors: Lena Stolze (actress), Helma Sanders-Brahms (editor), Monika Schindler (editor), Helma Sanders-Brahms (writer), Helma Sanders-Brahms (producer), Helma Sanders-Brahms (director), Cornelius Obonya (actor), Christhart Burgmann (producer), Ute Casper (producer), Bruno Dunst (actor), Saskia Richter (costume designer), Anna Sanders (actress), Peter Kowald (composer), Rene Schubert (actor), Eckard Koltermann (composer),
Plot: The life of Jewish Expressionist poet and performance artist, Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945), told chronologically in vignettes given context by archival footage of turn-of-the-century Germany, World War I, and the ascent of the Third Reich. Her poetry often comprises the soundtrack. We see her in relation to men: her first husband, whom she leaves after her son is born; artists like Chagall and Franz Marc; an older muse and then a second husband; and, Gottfried Benn (1886 - 1956), physician and poet. Benn's life is also chronicled: homosexual encounters, his attraction to Else and the Berlin scene, and his politics. Her poems addressed to him define this cultural moment.
Keywords: anti-semitism, army-officer, art-exhibit, artist, assault, blood, brown-shirt, cafe-society, childhood, death-of-a-childActors: Joe Melia (actor), Kim Evans (director), Saul Greenberg (actor),
Genres: Documentary,