Edvard Munch

Famous Swedish director Ingmar Bergman called the film Edward Munch a brilliant work. This is a masterpiece by Oscar-winning director Peter Watkins, examining the life and work of Edward Munch, author of the famous scream Scream. The film’s director and actors (almost all of them non-professionals) improvise based on the facts of Munch’s life. The film reveals in an incredibly versatile way not only the portrait of the artist himself, but also the beauty and disgust of the entire 19th century Scandinavian society, which Munch conveyed in his paintings. It is an anxious and fearful look at a politically and socially difficult period that gave birth to Edward Munch's style of expressionism. From Oslo to Christiania, where the artist grew up with a family tormented by terrible diseases ... To Berlin

Difficult plot scenes in the artist’s studio and elsewhere are interrupted by memories of Munch, the images of his lost love, which only emphasize his loneliness and the longing for the married woman that is out of reach for him. The film’s color palette ranges between black and blue, Muncho’s beloved “colors of death”. The inner world of the artist is painted in the director’s experiments with sound and tape.