Rooftop Cinema: Triegel Meets Cranach

30.07. Triegel trifft Cranach, Germany 2023
| 111 minutes, dir.: Paul Smaczny

A documentary about Leipzig painter Michael Triegel, who redesigns the central panel of the Cranach altarpiece in Naumburg Cathedral - a section destroyed in the 16th century. Over several years, the film follows the artist at work in his studio and on journeys to the roots of the Renaissance. The result is a layered portrait of a painter who deliberately employs old-master techniques as a contemporary form of expression.

The film also addresses the controversies surrounding heritage protection, religious pictorial traditions, and the cathedral's UNESCO World Heritage status. - Recommended from age 14.