NEVER LOOK AWAY follows thirty years in the life of a great artist - loosely based on Gerhard Richter. The film goes from a childhood witnessing Nazi Germany, to post-war East Berlin, where he falls in love with a young woman whose father is an ex-Nazi murderer in hiding, to escaping to the West at the time of the Berlin Wall, and ultimately being part of the exciting new movement in contemporary art.
NEVER LOOK AWAY follows thirty years in the life of a great artist - loosely based on Gerhard Richter. The film goes from a childhood witnessing Nazi Germany, to post-war East Berlin, where he falls in love with a young woman whose father is an ex-Nazi murderer in hiding, to escaping to the West at the time of the Berlin Wall, and ultimately being part of the exciting new movement in contemporary art.
"A stunning masterpiece. One of the best movies I've ever seen in my life."
Showbiz 411
"You won't look away."
Detroit News
"The German Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film is a triumphant return form to filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, a treatise on love and war and the limitless reach of art that, even when it trips up, is never less than exhilarating."
Rolling Stone