It starts with a free-spirited aunt taking her ... played by Tom Schilling): “Never look away. Everything that’s true is beautiful.” She says this while playing the piano in the nude ...

As an art student, Kurt has a disposition that resists his East German schooling and Soviet social repression — in obedience to his aunt’s send-off, “Never look away!” His development ...

She tells him that “everything that is true is beautiful” and to “never look away” (hence the ... just as naked as his aunt when she played the piano. Ellie’s mother (Ina Weisse) sees ...

The hero of “Never Look Away” is called Kurt Barnert ... Kurt is viewing the collection in the company of his beloved aunt, Elisabeth (Saskia Rosendahl), and she quietly says to him, as ...

but dangerously free-spirited aunt Elisabeth (Saskia Rosendahl), who will become a victim of the Nazi eugenics program and who tells her nephew to “never look away.” She becomes his lifelong muse.

The film 'Never Look Away' is about a painter who is first exposed to modern art as child growing up in Nazi Germany. His aunt takes him to an exhibit of modern art curated by Nazis, meant to show ...

Kurt — the fictional protagonist of “Never Look Away,” who bears a close biographical ... is initiated into the mysteries of art by his aunt Elisabeth (Saskia Rosendahl), who takes him ...

as he tries to move on from the state-ordered murder of his mentally ill aunt by a soon-to-be SS doctor, Professor Carl Seeband (Sebastian Koch). After falling in love with Ellie (Paula Beer), the ...

It is here where Elisabeth tells Kurt to “never look away” as “everything true is beautiful.” Kurt never forgets these words, and the loss of his aunt affects him deeply. Raised in East Germany, Kurt ...

It’s an adage that set writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on the path to his newest film, “Never Look Away ... begins when his Aunt Elizabeth is carted away to a mental ...

It starts with a free-spirited aunt taking her ... played by Tom Schilling): “Never look away. Everything that’s true is beautiful.” She says this while playing the piano in the nude ...