Because I was a Painter (2013)
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Country:
France, Germany
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Duration:
104 min
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Director:
Christophe Cognet
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Producer:
Stephane Jourdain, Jonas Katzenstein
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Cast:
Yehuda Bacon, José Fosty, Walter Spitzer, Samuel Willenberg
About film
This film tells about the destiny of artworks secretly created in Nazi concentration and death camps – and about how one can create on the threshold of death.
Rewards and nominations
- Rome Film Fest 2013 (Italy) — nominee: Cinema XXI Award
Director
was born in 1966, French screenwriter, director, and cinematographer. He studied filmmaking at Sorbonne. In 2000 he created the film L'affaire Dominici par Orson Welles by fully reconstructing and editing the unfinished work by Orson Welles, following directions that Welles left not long before his death. In his next film, Les sentiers de Fred Vargas, Cognet analyzed images and style of Italian films. In 2013 he released his film Because I Was a Painter about artwork created in concentration camps, having spent ten years looking for evidence.
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Director
was born in 1966, French screenwriter, director, and cinematographer. He studied filmmaking at Sorbonne. In 2000 he created the film L'affaire Dominici par Orson Welles by fully reconstructing and editing the unfinished work by Orson Welles, following directions that Welles left not long before his death. In his next film, Les sentiers de Fred Vargas, Cognet analyzed images and style of Italian films. In 2013 he released his film Because I Was a Painter about artwork created in concentration camps, having spent ten years looking for evidence.