The film explores the extraordinary life of the filmmaker Bernhard Wicki. Pursuing a continuous dialogue with contemporary history, which marked Wicki as an unflinching actor and director, the film sets out to trace the life of one of the greatest artists of the past century. A survey that takes its place in both cultural and film history, and is at the same time a poetic declaration of love to the man Bernhard Wicki. In her first documentary film, Elisabeth Wicki-Endriss, the actress and initiator of the "Bernhard Wicki Film Award Die Brücke “The Peace Prize of the German Film,” provides very personal recollections of the triumphs and misfortunes of her longtime companion and, later, husband Bernhard Wicki. In addition to some never-before-seen film and television excerpts and audio material, there are testimonies by friends and colleagues: Michael Mendl formulates Wicki’s thoughts through his writings and letters; Klaus Maria Brandauer analyzes Wicki’s early poems; and Maximilian Schell guides the viewer through the film as the narrator. We encounter Bernhard Wicki in his eternal battle against himself, against prejudice, against false seductions. But it is also a film about poetry, which he discovered in his early years and accompanied him throughout his life. —http://www.autentic.com/en/programs/do/detail.html?id=2356
