THE PAINTER

DER MALER

By Oliver HIRSCHBIEGE

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Documentary - Completed 2021

Docufiction: Actor Ben Becker impersonates the famous painter Albert Oehlen struggling with a painting and the meaning of his creation.

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2021
European Screenings
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Art - Culture
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Oliver HIRSCHBIEGE
    • Writer(s)
    • Ben BECKER, Albert OEHLEN
    • Producer(s)
    • Oliver HIRSCHBIEGEL, Albert OEHLEN
    • Synopsis
    • THE PAINTER follows the artist/actor as he is struggling and suffering along this process with us watching in joyful despair and what might happen next until the white canvas has turned into a finished painting. The outcome is a one-man rollercoaster that appears to be a documentary but in fact is a staged and guided improvisation with the ‘real’ process happening behind the camera. THE PAINTER is a constant flow of the artist’s journey with elements of farce and comedy topped with emotional moments of truth….in front of and behind the camera and leaving it up to us to decide what is real and/or authentic.