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Because I Was a Painter (2013)

Tous publics (FR) | France, Germany, Poland, Israel | French, German, English, Hebrew | 104 min
Directed by: Christophe Cognet
6.6

This film conducts an unprecedented investigation of secretly created artworks in Nazi concentration and death camps. It converses with the rare handful of living artists who survived the camps and with those who curate their art: about the emotions the works conjure, their marginalization, their signatures or anonymity, their style, as well as the representation of horror and extermination. But perhaps above all, it takes a long look at the drawings, wash drawings and paintings held in collections in France, Germany, Israel, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium and Switzerland. While transiting among these fragments of clandestine images and the vestiges of the camps, the film offers a sensitive quest amid faces, bodies and landscapes to explore the notion of artwork and confront the idea of beauty head-on. The stakes are disturbing, but perhaps we can thus better imagine what the camps were truly like, and experience the honor of an artist, no matter how small or fragile the gesture of drawing is.

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Release Date
Italy
(Rome Film Festival)
2013-11-14
France
No data
2014-03-05
Israel
(Jerusalem Film Festival)
2014-07-13
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Also Known As (A.K.A.)
Because I Was a Painter
(Original title)
Parce que j'étais peintre
France
Because I was a Painter, Art that survived the Nazi camps
Germany
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Parent Guide
Sex & Nudity
Unrated
Violence & Gore
Unrated
Profanity
Unrated
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
Unrated
Frightening & Intense Scenes
Unrated