Kurt’s aunt, however, secretly tells Kurt that she likes one of the paintings by the acclaimed artist Kandinsky. The docent at the art exhibit condemns all modern art as decadent and without timeless values. The movie opens in 1937 with a very young Kurt and his beloved Aunt Elisabeth, who’s about 19, visiting a Nazi art exhibit in Dresden condemning modern art. NEVER LOOK AWAY is a great anti-socialist German movie by the director of the anti-communist masterpiece THE LIVES OF OTHERS, but it’s marred by some sex scenes and scenes with excessive nudity. Unknown to the young man, however, is that his wife is the daughter of the Nazi doctor who condemned his beloved but mentally ill aunt to the gas chambers. NEVER LOOK AWAY is a German drama about a young man who grows up in Hitler’s National Socialist Germany and then becomes trapped in East Germany as an artist making murals for the International Socialist state until he and his wife escape to the West and have to forge a new life. That said, NEVER LOOK AWAY has several bedroom scenes and more than a few scenes of explicit nudity. It has a strong moral, anti-socialist worldview that’s very insightful. NEVER LOOK AWAY is long, at about three hours, but it’s always compelling and quite moving. Will Kurt and his wife decide to risk everything and escape to the West? Will Kurt become a real artist? Will Kurt ever discover his father-in-law had his aunt put to death? Kurt becomes a successful mural painter for the communists, but chafes under the oppression. Before they marry, her father lies about her medical history and convinces them she needs to abort her first child.
Unknown to the man, named Kurt, he’s married the daughter of the Nazi doctor who sent his beloved mentally ill aunt to the gas chambers.
NEVER LOOK AWAY is a German drama about a young man who grows up in Nazi Germany, then becomes a mural painter in East Germany after World War II.
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