In Process Record

In the mists of war and violence, the Harlequin, trumpet in hand, drifts through ravaged landscape passing a cripple and a marionette: Bernhard Heisig's pictorial worlds shock the viewer by depicting the great dramas of German history. Both a victim and a perpetrator in World War II and in the GDR dictatorship, the artist's search for sense and truth led him to his moving image formulas. Director Reiner Moritz converses with the renowned ex-principal of the Leipzig Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) about his work, which influenced the development of art for many decades in the rigid GDR system. I can only really paint rage well. Rage! Bernhard Heisig

Title from title frames

Originally produced by Arthaus Musik in 1991

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In German, English subtitles