Klimt (film)

Klimt
Film poster
Directed byRaúl Ruiz
Written byGilbert Adair
Raúl Ruiz
Herbert Vesely
Produced byMatthew Justice
Arno Ortmair
Dieter Pochlatko
Andreas Schmid
StarringJohn Malkovich
Veronica Ferres
Stephen Dillane
Saffron Burrows
Sandra Ceccarelli
Nikolai Kinski
CinematographyRicardo Aronovich
Edited byValeria Sarmiento
Music byJorge Arriagada
Distributed byGemini Films (France)[1]
Soda Pictures (United Kingdom)[1]
Release dates
  • 28 January 2006 (2006-01-28) (Rotterdam FF)
  • 3 March 2006 (2006-03-03) (Austria)
Running time
131 minutes
CountriesAustria
France
Germany
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish/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]

  1. ^ a b "Klimt". Box Office Mojo.
  2. ^ This means nothing to me Landesman, Cosmo. Sunday Times 3 June 2007
  3. ^ a b "Klimt". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
  4. ^ "28th Moscow International Film Festival (2006)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  5. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417871/awards [unreliable source?]