In old Betamax footage, the Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) speaks animatedly about his life and work. Art aficionado Glenn Bray filmed his elderly friend in the last years of his life to document his remarkable career and personality before it was too late. In this wide-ranging portrait, Bray explains how he met Szukalski by chance in 1971 when he came across one of his expressionist drawings and discovered that its maker lived only a few miles away fr... (Full plot summary below)
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In old Betamax footage, the Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) speaks animatedly about his life and work. Art aficionado Glenn Bray filmed his elderly friend in the last years of his life to document his remarkable career and personality before it was too late. In this wide-ranging portrait, Bray explains how he met Szukalski by chance in 1971 when he came across one of his expressionist drawings and discovered that its maker lived only a few miles away from him. The man leading a modest, anonymous life in Burbank, California turned out to have been a well-known avant-garde artist in Chicago and pre-war Poland. Szukalski created a mythology entirely of his own in his drawings and paintings, as well as an extensive manuscript. After his return to the United States, a group of artists and art lovers gathered around Szukalski, among them George DiCaprio and his son Leonardo, who jointly produced this documentary. The interviews and archive footage tell the extraordinary life story of a man who seemed to have been born for great things, but who lost virtually all his artwork in the Second World War. His past also includes a dark chapter that the filmmakers didn't discover until their documentary was in production.
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| The New York TimesKaren HanA title like Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski suggests a breadth and depth that’s difficult to live up to, which makes it all the more remarkable that this Netflix documentary by Irek Dobrowolski manages to deliver. |
| User ReviewHeidi JDeeply troubling. Fascinating. How do we not know people like this? I commend the Dicaprios for bringing this to us. This documentary and Stash's legacy is a wonderful discovery for those of us who love humanity in all it's beautiful forms. There was unequivocally something special about this man. I cannot thank you enough. |
| User ReviewJames LDeeply troubling. Fascinating. How do we not know people like this? I commend the Dicaprios for bringing this to us. This documentary and Stash's legacy is a wonderful discovery for those of us who love humanity in all it's beautiful forms. There was unequivocally something special about this man. I cannot thank you enough. |
| User ReviewJeff NNever having heard of Szukalski I went without much curiosity. I left the film with a renewed and colossal curiosity about life and art. The film is structured in an intriguing way that makes it able to tell a biographical account without being dry and stodgy. |
| User ReviewDave ZVery interesting film about an unknown artist who many thought was a genius and the most important sculptor of the 20th century. |
| User ReviewJ VNice look at the artist and his work, some great interviews with people who knew him. But it pushed hard to be a political hit piece, Nationalism is bad, globalism is good nonsense,. Why do they have to equate any kind of national or ethnic pride/solidarity with being a Nazi ? Hmmm, must be an agenda there... but this is the flavor of Netflicks, with Mr & Mrs O , and Dicapprio, being brought on board. Could have been a good film without the twisted propaganda . |
| User ReviewAmy BA remarkable well told, interesting in-depth life story of someone who would have been better off forgotten. |
