Never Look Away

2018
7.3
Never Look Away
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Title: Never Look Away

Original Title: Werk ohne Autor

Year: 2018

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: July 05 2019
  • United States: January 25 2019

Plot

After spending his childhood in East Germany, Kurt Barnert gets to escape to West Germany, where he begins a new life as an art student, without forgetting the terrible events he witnessed as a child. But everything gets complicated when he falls in love with his classmate Ellie, whose father doesn't agree with their relation, so he'll try everything that's possible to keep them apart, without suspecting that his past and Kurt's terrible childhood have been connected long ago. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ('The Tourist'), the German candidate for the best Foreign Language Film Oscar has Tom Schilling ('Generation War'), Sebastian Koch ('Bridge of Spies') y Paula Beer ('The Dark Valley') in its cast

Awards

  • 2019 Academy Awards (Oscars): 2 0
  • 2019 Golden Globes: 1 0

Cast

Lars Eidinger

Lars Eidinger

Heiner Kerstens

Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch

Professor Carl Seeband

Tom Schilling

Tom Schilling

Kurt Barnert

Paula Beer

Paula Beer

Ellie Seeband

Rainer Bock

Rainer Bock

Dr. Burghart Kroll

Oliver Masucci

Oliver Masucci

Professor Antonius van Verten

Photos

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Trivia

Old colleagues

Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and actor Sebastian Koch previously collaborated on 'The Lives of Others' (2006).

Outraged

Gerhard Richter, the person who the film is based on, saw the film as an "abuse and grossly distorting" of his biography.

Real character

The character of Kurt Barnert is loosely based on German artist Gerhard Richter.

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