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Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
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EGON SCHIELE: EXCESS AND PUNISHMENT

Egon Schiele - Exzess Under Bestrafung

Directed by Herbert Vesely
Austria, France, 1981
Biography, Drama

Synopsis

The brief and perverse life of artist Egon Schiele and his first wife in pre-World War I, pre-Freud Vienna. Schiele’s drawings of nude young girls were deemed pornographic, and he was briefly imprisoned (and later acquitted) for seducing a minor.

Synopsis

The brief and perverse life of artist Egon Schiele and his first wife in pre-World War I, pre-Freud Vienna. Schiele’s drawings of nude young girls were deemed pornographic, and he was briefly imprisoned (and later acquitted) for seducing a minor.