Edvard Munch (1974)

Curiosidades

• Rodada en: Oslo y Åsgårdstrand

Edvard Munch is a 1974 Norwegian biographical psychological docudrama film written, narrated and directed by English filmmaker Peter Watkins. It is about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. It stars non-professional Norwegian actor Geir Westby as the painter. Watkins appears as an English-speaking voiceover narrator to imbue the film its documentary style. It was originally created as a two-part miniseries co-produced by the Norwegian and Swedish state television networks NRK and SVT, but subsequently gained an American theatrical release in 1976.

Production

In 1968 Watkins had made a visit to the Edvard Munch Museum in Oslo where he was deeply moved by the artist's work. He was also later moved by "Death and the Child", which in its time, was attacked as being "incomplete" - a criticism given to many of Munch's works. According to Watkins it took three years to persuade NRK to fund the film, which only happened after SVT convinced them to participate in a co-production.

Oslo served as the main shooting location, with other shots being done at Asgardstrand and the Musée Rodin in Paris. The exhibition scenes were done at the Munch Museum and The National Gallery in Oslo, and original Munch paintings and prints were used during production. Watkins was to use an amateur cast of 360 people, several of them giving their honest opinions of the paintings in the film.

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