Patience (After Sebald) (2012)
A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Max Sebald (1944 - 2001) via a walk through East Anglia tracking his most influential book, The Rings of Saturn. The much anticipated new feature by the Grierson Award-winning director of Joy Division, Patience is the first film about Sebald internationally, marking ten years since the writer's untimely death, and with contributions from major writers, artists and film-makers.
- Date of release
- 2012-01-27
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Grant Gee
Casting
- Jonathan Pryce — Voiceover
- Tacita Dean — Self
Interesting facts
- Based on: The Rings of Saturn
Winfried Georg Sebald, known as W. G. Sebald or Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to The New Yorker "widely recognized for his extraordinary contribution to world literature."
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