The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)

Directed by

Richard Lyford, Robert J. Flaherty, Curt Oertel

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany, United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a black and white documentary from 1950 about the Italian artist Michelangelo. It shows his paintings and sculptures and talks about his life and work.

slow-pacededucationalreverentcontemplativeformalinformativeclassical

What happens

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo is a 1950 German documentary film about the painter and sculptor Michelangelo. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film was a re-edited version of a German/Swiss film of 1938 originally titled Michelangelo: Life of a Titan, directed by Curt Oertel. The re-edited version featured a new English narration by Fredric March and a musical score onto a shorter edit of the existing film. The new credits include Richard Lyford as director and Robert Snyder as producer. The film was edited by Lyford. The Academy Film Archive preserved The Titan in 2005. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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