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kobvindex_INT0002540
Format:
1 DVD video (circa 70 minutes) :
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sound (Dolby Digital 5.1 + 2.0) ; colour with black & white sequences ;
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12 cm ; image format : 16:9.
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "A cinematic meditation about architect Erich Mendelsohn based on his letters and a memoir by his wife Louise. As a young man, he drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them, from the trenches, to the young cellist waiting for him in Berlin. She believed in his genius and after World War 1, she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany. When she planned to leave him for a communist poet, he built a perfect house for her. When the Nazis came to power, the couple escaped the house and Germany, and he turned his talents to creating buildings in England, the U.S. and Israel.--Container"
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MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Ein junger Architekt schickt seiner 16-jährigen Geliebten von der Front des Ersten Weltkriegs Briefe mit Zeichnungen organischer Gebilde und philosophischen Gedanken. Daraus entsteht eine lebenslange Verbindung, in der Erich Mendelsohn zu einem der wichtigsten Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts reift. Duki Dror erzählt sein Mendelsohn-Porträt als Liebesgeschichte, festgehalten in Briefen und Memoiren, in Spuren und Details berühmter Bauwerke, bei deren Entstehung Luise Mendelsohn das 'zweite Auge' ihres Mannes war. ERICH MENDELSOHN - VISIONEN FÜR DIE EWIGKEIT ist poetische Doppelbiografie und präzise Werkdokumentation in einem, eine bewegte Erzählung, fern jedes abgesicherten, trockenen Architekturvortrags -- als Beispiel lebendiger und filmischer Architekturgeschichte." -- "A young architect sends his 16-year-old lover from the front of the First World War letters with drawings of organic structures and philosophical thoughts. The result is a lifelong connection in which Erich Mendelsohn matures into one of the most important architects of the 20th century. Duki Dror tells his Mendelsohn portrait as a love story, captured in letters and memoirs, in traces and details of famous buildings, in whose emergence Luise Mendelsohn was her husband's 'second eye'. ERICH MENDELSOHN - VISIONS FOR ETERNITY is a poetic double biography and precise work documentation in one, a moving narrative, far from any secure, dry architectural lecture - as an example of living and cinematic architectural history."
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MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions is a 2011 documentary film directed by Duki Dror. The film takes as its focus the German-Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn, exposing the complexities and intricacies of Mendelsohn's life and work through a series of letters with Louise, the young cellist who would eventually become his wife. Dror's film is at once an examination of Mendelsohn's seminal architectural work as well as an exploration of the German-Jewish experience during and after World War II seen through Mendelsohn's journey from Germany to England, British Mandate Palestine and the US. [...] The film follows the trajectory of Mendelsohn's career, bringing to life the stories (and, in interviews with other architects and experts, the impact) of his many influential buildings such as the Einstein Tower observatory in Potsdam and the Universum (the modern day Schaubühne building), believed to be the first modern cinema in the world. Though Mendelsohn enjoyed the status of one of Germany's most important and successful architects, the outbreak of World War II led him to flee Germany. Utilizing over 1,200 personal letters penned between Mendelsohn and the 16-year-old cellist Louise who would later become his wife, the film brings to life both the historical context in which Mendelsohn lived and worked as well as the architect's personal struggles and eccentricities. The letters between Mendelsohn and Louise also serve to bring to life other famous characters of Mendelsohn's era, including the German poet and playwright Ernst Toller whose affair with Louise provides the film with additional drama."
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BONUS MATERIAL: trailer; features: Mendelsohn in San Francisco, Briefe von Unterwegs, Haifa, Der 'Synagogen-Architekt'.
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LANGUAGE NOTE: English original, German version, subtitles in German, English, French. Polnisch.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Documentary films
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