Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

Oct 7, 2016

1h 45m

★ 6.8

Overview

Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion

Amour Fou Luxembourg

Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion

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Cast

Egon Schiele

Noah Saavedra

Gerti Schiele

Maresi Riegner

Wally Neuziel

Valerie Pachner

Moa Mandu

Larissa Breidbach

Edith Harms

Marie Jung

Adele Harms

Elisabeth Umlauft

Anton Peschka

Thomas Schubert

Dom Osen

Daniel Sträßer

Variety Show Director

Nina Proll

Gustav Klimt

Cornelius Obonya

St. Pölten Judge

André Jung

Attorney

Wolfram Berger

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