Þýski listamaðurinn Kurt Barnert flúði Austur – Þýskaland og býr nú í Vestur- Þýskalandi. Hann hefur aldrei komist yfir fortíðina í Austri þar sem hann ólst upp undir ógnarstjórn nasista og síðar þýska alþýðulýðveldisins.

Sem ungur drengur upplifir Kurt hryllilega atburði og byggir listsköpun sína á ákveðnu frelsi sem hann hefur sem listamaður til að tjá tilfinningaskalann sem liggur að baki.

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Never Look Away var tilnefnd til tvennra Óskarsverðlauna og Golden Globe verðlauna sem besta erlenda kvikmyndin 2019.

English

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.

The film was nominated for the Golden Globe by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and for two Academy Awards, in the Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography categories.

“Inspired films about artists are rare enough. But films that manage to make sense of artistic inspiration itself? Count Altman’s Vincent & Theo, Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, Leigh’s Mr Turner, Watkins’s Edvard Munch, the Minnelli diptych Lust for Life and An American in Paris among the few – but even a longlist would be short indeed. Never Look Away deserves to join it.” – The Telegraph