Giovanni Segantini - Magic of Light

A film by Christian Labhart
Switzerland 2015

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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Language OV German/French/Itialiano Subtitles english, deutsch, français, italiano
Length 82 min. Format 16/9 PAL, color Sound DD 5.1 Age 8 Region code 2
Bonus Music CD with the integral film music by Paul Giger, J.S. Back and W.A. Mozart