The Swiss painter Paul Klee (1879-1940), who believed his ancestors came from North Africa, traveled to Egypt in 1928. He visited Tunesia in 1914, together with August Macke. The light and colors there influenced him a lot. German documentary filmmaker Rüdiger Sünner travels through Egypt with Klee's diary in his luggage. This film essay shows Klee's paintings, sepia toned filmed sequences of early 1990s Egypt, and tells of old Egyptian myths (Osiris and his adventures in the underworld) from the Book of the Dead, stories that deeply inspired Paul Klee.
Rüdiger Sünner
Director, Writer
McQueen74%
Night Will Fall76%
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
180° South72%
28 Up75%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Voyeur59%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Sidney70%
Fata Morgana65%
Directed by John Ford70%
Public Speaking70%
Above Majestic73%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Everybody’s Everything84%
Nail Bomber: Manhunt65%
Maternal Instinct72%
Sherman's March67%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
