KINOFEST: MÜNTER & KANDINSKY

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125 minutes | Drama / Biography | Release: 24.10.2024 | Germany/Switzerland 2024

It is the moving story of a dramatic love affair and at the same time a document of epochal art: at the beginning of the 20th century, Berlin-born Gabriele Münter lives and paints together with her great love, the Russian Wassily Kandinsky, in the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee. The province becomes the starting point for an artistic awakening into modernity that revolutionizes painting and the understanding of art and gives rise to the loose artist movement Der Blaue Reiter.

The film atmospherically traces the life and love story of Münter and Kandinsky: The young painting student who falls in love with the teacher who is almost eleven years her senior. Their life together while traveling and in the Blue Land, which became a source of inspiration for their painting and made them pioneers of their time. Their artistically productive, but privately rather fatal relationship caused Münter to become increasingly desperate and Kandinsky increasingly disgruntled.

MÜNTER & KANDINSKY is the first feature film to portray in detail the years the two highly talented personalities spent together, the emergence of the Blaue Reiter and revives the Schwabing bohemian scene shortly after the turn of the century.