Never Look Away

(2018)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 27,275 votes

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Year: 2018

Runtime: 189 min

Country: Germany, Italy

Director: Флориан Хенкель фон Доннерсмарк

Cast: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Оливер Мазуччи

Plot

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

Young artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) has fled to West Germany but continues to be tormented by the experiences of his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets student Ellie (Paula Beer), he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and starts to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.