挣扎：生命与失落的艺术 (Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski)

《挣扎：生命与失落的艺术》剧情简介：1971年芝加哥，晚年默默无闻的波兰艺术家斯坦尼斯拉夫·苏卡斯基（Stanisław Szukalski）被当地的一位收藏家偶然发现，并因此吸引了众多当地艺术家和地下漫画家。其中一个人是乔治·迪卡普里奥，而他的儿子就是本片的制片人莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥（Leonardo DiCaprio）。 通过更深入的交流，人们发现这位老者竟然是30年代波兰的国宝级雕塑家。二战期间，波兰经历华沙保卫战后覆亡，苏卡斯基及家人流落美国，并与好莱坞传奇编剧本·赫克特（Ben Hecht）成为挚友，之后在“芝加哥文艺复兴”中发挥重要作用。 苏卡斯基的雕塑和绘画精致细腻，充满戏剧性和超现实主义特点。而其色彩浓厚民族主义作品以及晚年独创的伪科学历史主义理论 “Zermatism” 也引起了众多争议

In old Betamax footage, the Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) speaks animatedly about his life and work. Art aficionado Glenn Bray filmed his elderly friend in the last years of his life to document his remarkable career and personality before it was too late. In this wide-ranging portrait, Bray explains how he met Szukalski by chance in 1971 when he came across one of his expressionist drawings and discovered that its maker lived only a few miles away from him. The man leading a modest, anonymous life in Burbank, California turned out to have been a well-known avant-garde artist in Chicago and pre-war Poland. Szukalski created a mythology entirely of his own in his drawings and paintings, as well as an extensive manuscript. After his return to the United States, a group of artists and art lovers gathered around Szukalski, among them George DiCaprio and his son Leonardo, who jointly produced this documentary. The interviews and archive footage tell the ...