Chagall - Malevich
Shagal - Malevich
dir. Alexander Mitta
, 2014 - 120
A film about a brief but significant episode in the life of world-famous painter Marc Chagall. It focuses on his conflict with another Russian avant-garde painter (of Polish descent), Kazimir Malevich. The years 1917-18 were a time when Chagall worked for the Russian revolution. He was appointed commissar for the arts in Vitebsk where he established the Academy of Fine Arts. Contrary to Malevich, he was more highly regarded by the new Bolshevik authorities and benefited more from the new system. Malevich was more radical about his work, even treating his students like soldiers battling for a better, abstract representation of the world, with maximum simplicity of form. He also had an inferiority complex about his training and artistic achievements. Until 1918 he knew only Moscow and Petrograd, whereas Chagall studied in Paris, met with Apollinaire, Delaunay, Léger, and had exhibitions at Berlin's famous Der Sturm gallery.
Legendary Russian director, screenwriter and producer Alexander Mitta is back after a 10-year break with this historical drama.
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