Chagall, the Russian years
This film takes us on a journey into Chagall's memory. The Russian years, in his native town of Vitebsk, were crucial to the discipline and the coherence of the painter's work.
Never during his lifetime did Chagall surrender to the trend of fashionable movements : Cubism, Abstraction, Constructivism, Surrealism...
Type (Documentaire / Documentaire fiction / Série documentaire)DocumentaryGenre en anglaisArts & culture Directed by Charles NajmanWith the support of CNC, ProcirepYear1995Duration26min
Through varied testimonies, interviews with Chagall himself or with experts, (Jean Leymarie, Sylvie Forestier, who is the curator of the Chagall Museum in Nice, and Daniel Marchesseau, who supervised the Chagall exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris), we will wander through Chagall’s works at that time, and we will get the confirmation that this period was fundamental to the whole work of this immense
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