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- Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck explained that Never Look Away is a work of fiction, but that the inspiration had been an article by German investigative reporter Jürgen Schreiber about German painter Gerhard Richter. Richter's aunt Marianne Schönfelder had been murdered by the Nazis because she developed schizophrenia.
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May 4, 2021 · The story is, according to Donnersmarck, only loosely based on Richter’s life, with the director telling AnOther that his inspiration was sparked from an article famed German investigative reporter Jürgen Schreiber wrote about the painter, which uncovered a dark truth about the death of his aunt.
May 4, 2021 · The story is, according to Donnersmarck, only loosely based on Richter's life, with the director telling AnOther that his inspiration was sparked from an article famed German investigative reporter Jürgen Schreiber wrote about the painter, which uncovered a dark truth about the death of his aunt.
Plot. As a child during Nazi-era Germany, Kurt Barnert (inspired by Gerhard Richter) visits an exhibit of "Degenerate Art" in Dresden with his beautiful young aunt Elisabeth. While there, he is mesmerized by Girl with Blue Hair, a modernist sculpture by Eugen Hoffmann .
Feb 8, 2019 · The life and work of Kurt Barnett in “Never Look Away” are based on the influential German artist Gerhard Richter. “Richter was asked about the power of art,” von Donnersmarck hassaid.
Feb 12, 2019 · “Never Look Away,” Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s first German film since the Oscar-winning “The Lives of Others” (2006), is an absorbing, sweeping narrative of the development of a great...
Feb 1, 2019 · “Me, me, me!” his teacher exclaims, decrying the modernist mysteries of the West. Kurt falls in love with a fashion student named Ellie (Paula Beer), who sews him a suit. There’s a strange...
Jul 6, 2019 · The German director of The Lives of Others, the Oscar-winning 2006 drama about Stasi surveillance in East Berlin, had been working on a script called Never Look Away, about an artist whose ...
