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 Because I Was a Painter - © Joseph Richter, Copie informatique d’un dessin clandestin à la Ghetto Fighter’s House – qui possède l’une des plus vaste collection d’œuvres issues des camps nazis. Jour2Fête

Because I Was a Painter

A Feature film by Christophe Cognet

Produced by La Huit

Release in France : 05/03/2014

    Synopsis

    I don't dare say it, but for a painter, it was incredibly beautiful. It was absolutely necessary that it be reproduced, represented, so as to have a trace afterwards. - Zoran Music, Dachau prisoner.

    This film is an unusual investigation into the art works secretly produced in Nazi concentration camps. The few artists sent to the camps who are still alive, along with the conservators of the artists' works, appear in the film, which speaks of the emotion provoked by these works, the artists' marginalization, their renown, or their anonymity, their style, and also the representation of horror and extermination.
    Above all, perhaps, the film lingers on and contemplates the drawings, wash drawings, and paintings conserved in French, German, Israeli, Polish, Czech, Belgian, and Swiss archives.
    This journey among the fragments of secret images and the ruins of the former camps hence offers a sensitive quest between faces, bodies, and landscapes so as to ponder the notion of the work of art and boldly question the idea of beauty.
    A disturbing enterprise, perhaps, but it allows us to then better imagine what the camps were really like, to understand the possibilities of art, and sense what an artist's honor is all about - as minute and fragile as the gesture of drawing may be..

     

     

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    Production and distribution (2)

    Executive Producer :

    La Huit

    French distribution :

    jour2fête

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    Full credits (10)

    Producer :

    Stéphane Jourdain

    Sound recordist :

    Graciela Barrault

    Director of Photography :

    Nara Keo Kosal

    Press Attaché (film) :

    Annie Maurette

    Sound Editor :

    Didier Cattin

    Associate Producer :

    Gilles Le Mao

    Screenwriters :

    Christophe Cognet, Jean Breshand, Pierre-François Moreau

    Production managers :

    Frédéric Duuez, Alain Bastide

    Editor :

    Catherine Zins

    Sound Mixer :

    Jean-Marc Schick

    Technical details

    Feature film

    Genres :

    Documentary

    Themes :

    Art

    Production language :

    French, Polish, German, Hebrew

    Coproducer countries :

    France, Germany

    Original French-language productions :

    Yes

    Nationality :

    Majority French (France, Germany)

    Production year :

    2013

    French release :

    05/03/2014

    Runtime :

    1 h 44 min

    Current status :

    Released

    Visa number :

    128.731

    Approval :

    Yes

    Production formats :

    HD 4K

    Color type :

    Color

    Aspect ratio :

    CinemaScope

    Audio format :

    Dolby SR