Absolut Warhola

Absolut Warhola is a documentary by Stanisław Mucha from the year 2001.

Action

The German -Polish filmmaker Mucha embarks on the trail looking for the relatives of Andy Warhol by Medzilaborce and Miková in Slovakia. The small towns lie in the triangle on the border of Slovakia and Poland and Ukraine. This is where the parents were born and raised before they emigrated before the First World War in the United States by Andy Warhol. Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh. Mucha surveyed the population according to their most famous son and discovered a carefree handling Warhol art, Pop Art. He discovered the great-great aunt of Warhol, who still has memories of the parents Warhol. His cousins ​​tell with pride of her Andy Warhol, who took care even in difficult times from a distance around them. So they got a delivery with colorful pumps that were painted by Andy Warhol. You 've applied it. Even today they live in great poverty and high unemployment, which leads to racism against the Roma population. In Medzilaborce a Warhol Museum opened its director, however, is struggling to fund this museum. Only a few tourists are interested in the museum. Therefore, the population and relatives Warhols do not know more than before about Andy Warhol. They are to this day in the belief that he has been painted as a house painter houses and his alleged homosexuality appears to them as the devil talk.

Reviews

" From this correspondence of big world and the deepest province, bustle and serenity arises the special climate of the documentary film, ' examines the World in the water drops, in which he, despite many bizarre and absurd moments never reveals his figures of ridicule. In the best passages he condenses into a parabola to the transience of time and the finiteness of life. "

Awards

  • 2001: Audience Award at the International Film Festival Mannheim -Heidelberg
  • 2001: Don Quixote Prize, Prize for Best Cinematography and Audience Award at the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival
  • 2001: Prize of the German Film Critics
  • 2003: Adolf Grimme Prize
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