Klimt | |
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Directed by | Raúl Ruiz |
Written by | Gilbert Adair Raúl Ruiz Herbert Vesely |
Produced by | Matthew Justice Arno Ortmair Dieter Pochlatko Andreas Schmid |
Starring | John Malkovich Veronica Ferres Stephen Dillane Saffron Burrows Sandra Ceccarelli Nikolai Kinski |
Cinematography | Ricardo Aronovich |
Edited by | Valeria Sarmiento |
Music by | Jorge Arriagada |
Distributed by | Gemini Films (France)[1] Soda Pictures (United Kingdom)[1] |
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Running time | 131 minutes |
Countries | Austria France Germany United Kingdom |
Language | English/German/French |
Klimt is a 2006 Austrian art-house biographical film about the life of the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918).[2] It was written and directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, with an English screenplay adaptation by Gilbert Adair. The director of photography was Ricardo Aronovich, and the music was composed by Jorge Arriagada.[3] The title role is played by John Malkovich and the cast includes Stephen Dillane. Both a 130-minute-long director's cut and a shortened producer's cut of 96 minutes were shown at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.[3] A few months later the film was shown at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival[4] where it was nominated for two awards, winning the Russian Film Clubs Federation Award.[5]