Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.
The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer.
The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。解放初期,冀东芳草地。共产党员高大泉(张国民 饰)成立了天门区第一个互助组,带领翻身农民搭犋换工,完成了春耕春播任务,他的工作得到县委书记的支持和肯定。村长张金发(马精武 饰)则热衷于谷县长(葛存壮 饰)提出的“发家致富”口号,富农冯少怀买骡子在翻身户面前示威,遭到朱铁汉(朱德承 饰)等人的斥责。冯少怀挑唆高二林(苗壮 饰)和哥哥高大泉分家,暗藏的敌人范克明(张柏林 饰)则离间互助组内部人员争贷款,迫使翻身农民刘祥(谷子 饰)卖地,明知互助组缺东少西,挑拔张金寿卖车要粮。面对各种扑面而来的刁难和打击,高大泉没有退却或让步,克服重重困难,他带头成立了天门区第一个农业合作社......。