Inside the Uffizi
Directed by
Written by
  • Corinna Belz
  • Enrique Sánchez Lansch
Produced byThomas Kufus
StarringEike Schmidt
Cinematography
  • Johann Feindt
  • Thomas Riedelsheimer
Edited byAnne Fabini
Music by
  • Christoph M. Kaiser
  • Julian Maas
Production
company
zero one film
Release date
  • 25 November 2021 (2021-11-25)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Inside the Uffizi (German: In den Uffizien) is a 2021 German documentary film about the Uffizi museum in Florence. It was directed by Corinna Belz and Enrique Sánchez Lansch.

Synopsis

The film covers the Uffizi, a museum in Florence with more than 500 rooms, based on the House of Medici's collection of paintings.[1] Attention is given to the institution's staff, including Eike Schmidt, a German art historian who became its director in 2015.[2]

Production

Filming took place during a total of 50 days over a period of 2 years.[3]

Release

Inside the Uffizi was released in Germany on 25 November 2021.[1]

Reception

Birgit Rieger of Der Tagesspiegel compared Inside the Uffizi to Gerhard Richter Painting, a film by Belz from 2011, and contrasted the distance with which the Uffizi personnel is portrayed to the intimacy of the previous film.[2] Simon Hauck of Kino-Zeit said Inside the Uffizi contains joy and fascination, has the form of an "art-film essay" and in its best moments "also functions as a documentary meta-film about the desire to look at oneself in the shadow of history and turbo-technology since the turn of the millennium".[4]

Inside the Uffizi was nominated for the German Film Award for Best Sound.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "In den Uffizien". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  2. 1 2 Rieger, Birgit (29 November 2021). "„In den Uffizien" von Corinna Belz: Diese Doku gibt Einblicke in eines der berühmtesten Museen der Welt". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  3. Wilson, Douglas (6 January 2023). "'Inside the Uffizi,' Behind the Scenes at the Medicis' Art Museum, Clinches Major Territory Deals (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  4. Hauck, Simon. "In den Uffizien". Kino-Zeit (in German). Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  5. "In den Uffizien" (in German). German Film Awards. Retrieved 4 May 2023.

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