The Book of Vision

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The Book of Vision
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Directed byCarlo S. Hintermann
Screenplay byCarlo S. Hintermann
Marco Saura
Produced byGerardo Panichi
Robin Monotti Graziadei
Vera Graziadei
Sébastien Delloye
Jerome Bellavista Caltagirone
Starring Charles Dance
Lotte Verbeek
Sverrir Gudnason
CinematographyJörg Widmer
Edited byPiero Lassandro
Music by Hanan Townshend
Production
companies
Citrullo International
Luminous Arts Productions
Entre Chien et Loup
Rai Cinema
Release date
  • September 3, 2020 (2020-09-03)(Venice) [1]
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesItaly
United Kingdom
Belgium
LanguageEnglish

The Book of Vision is a 2020 psychological drama film directed by Carlo S. Hintermann (in his narrative feature directorial debut) and starring Charles Dance, Lotte Verbeek, and Sverrir Gudnason. Terrence Malick served as executive producer to the film. [1] [2]

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It was selected as the opening film of the International Critics' Week at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. [1] [2]

Plot

In present day, young doctor Eva leaves her promising career behind to study history of medicine, questioning everything from her nature to her body, her illness and sealed fate. Johan Anmuth is an 18th-century Prussian physician in perpetual struggle between the rise of rationalism and ancient forms of animism. The Book of Vision is a manuscript that sweeps these two existences up, blending them into a never-ending vortex. Nothing expires in its time. Only what you desire is real, not merely what happens. [3]

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References

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