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Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

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Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

2016

1h 45m

6.7(103 votes)

Drama

History

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.

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Amour Fou Luxembourg

Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Noah Saavedra

Noah Saavedra

Egon Schiele

Maresi Riegner

Maresi Riegner

Gerti Schiele

Valerie Pachner

Valerie Pachner

Wally Neuziel

Larissa Breidbach

Larissa Breidbach

Moa Mandu

Marie Jung

Marie Jung

Edith Harms

Elisabeth Umlauft

Elisabeth Umlauft

Adele Harms

Thomas Schubert

Thomas Schubert

Anton Peschka

Daniel Sträßer

Daniel Sträßer

Dom Osen

Nina Proll

Nina Proll

Variety Show Director

Cornelius Obonya

Cornelius Obonya

Gustav Klimt

Creative team

Directed by: Dieter Berner
Written by: Hilde Berger
Dieter Berner
Produced by: Franz Novotny
Alexander Glehr

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