Films by Carl Schmitt

Germany 2009, 90 min
by Razvan Georgescu

How does creativity change when death is near? What counts when you must go? Diagnosed with a brain tumour and given three more years to live, the Romanian filmmaker Razvan Georgescu decides to overcome the solemnity of the issue and to explore the realm between Life and Death in order to meet some of its prominent inhabitants: famous artists who have had a traumatic brush with mortality and survived or who only have three more years to live. Death and illnes – motor for creativity? Is the creat