Cankar

Ivan Cankar experienced many things only after he has written about them In the film this link between his writing and his private life is depicted by liveaction and animated scenes that draw exclusively on the writers works and letters to his loved ones For an entire decade he lived with the Löffler family in Vienna where he wrote most of his impressive oeuvre First he grew very close to the lady of the house then to her adolescent daughter Steffi Back in Ljubljana he got involved with several girls there an attentive lover of a cheerful nature accessible and highly intelligent His popular public lectures reveal him as a passionate social democrat