Giovanni Segantini Magie des Lichts

Artist anarchist dropout paperless immigrant Giovanni Segantini was all of this He created usually under the open sky monumental idealized alpine landscapes In the course of his lifetime he climbed ever higher in search of more light finally dying at 41 in an Engadin alpine hut at 2700m The film offers insight into his difficult childhood and boyhood shares his inner processes and crises as a painter as well as his contradictory dealings with motherly love and eroticism and ultimately his desperate struggle against death