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Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he developed a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase," many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger contemporary Egon Schiele.
Actors: Hans-Wolfgang Jurgan (producer), Johannes Silberschneider (actor), Eberhard Junkersdorf (producer), Karl Markovics (actor), Lena Stolze (actress), Eva Mattes (actress), Hubert von Spreti (producer), Percy Adlon (writer), Percy Adlon (director), Karl Fischer (actor), Konstantin Seitz (producer), Jochen Kunstler (editor), Caterina Czepek (costume designer), Michael Rotschopf (actor), Daniel Keberle (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Merab Ninidze (actor), Johannes Silberschneider (actor), Josef Brandmaier (miscellaneous crew), Andreas Kispert (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Endelman (composer), Vincent Perez (actor), August Schmölzer (actor), Bruce Beresford (director), Jonathan Pryce (actor), Tim Wellburn (editor), Frank Hübner (producer), Norbert Blecha (producer), Wolfgang Hübsch (actor), Simon Verhoeven (actor), Jan Fantl (producer),
Plot: Vienna, 1902: Alma Schindler meets Gustav Mahler. She beautiful, young, plays, and composes: music is her life. She becomes Mahler's lover, then he marries her, asking that she give up composing. She has two children, works as his assistant, does his books, saves him from debt, and feels stifled. In 1910, after the death of a child, she retreats to a spa where she falls in love with Walter Gropius. Will she go with him or stay with Mahler? She conducts an affair with the tempestuous Oskar Kokoschka and is stifled in another way. Then, she marries Gropius, who proves imperious. She leaves him for Franz Werfel: he finds her compositions and insists the public hear them.
Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, adultery, archduke-franz-ferdinand, architect, art, artist, artist's-studio, baby, bare-breastsActors: Dagmar Hirtz (editor), Erik Frey (actor), Jane Birkin (actress), Christine Kaufmann (actress), Brian Eno (composer), Herbert Fux (actor), Guido Wieland (actor), Mathieu Carrière (actor), Harry Hardt (actor), Serge Gainsbourg (actor), Marcel Ophüls (actor), Herbert Vesely (writer), Herbert Vesely (director), Herbert Vesely (producer), Dieter Geissler (producer),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Mick Audsley (editor), David Suchet (actor), Edward Petherbridge (actor), Rodney Wilson (producer), Mick Gold (director), Mick Gold (producer), Mick Gold (writer), Nicholas Selby (actor), Grant Cathro (actor), David Kershaw (composer), Alessandra Comini (miscellaneous crew), Ruth Cubbin (writer), Alessandra Comini (miscellaneous crew), Jamie Leonard (costume designer), Meir Wigoder (miscellaneous crew),
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