Jörg Ratgeb, Painter

Intimate documentary portrait of german cinematographer Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, who worked with many directors of the New German Cinema and was longtime collaborator of Werner Herzog und Herbert Achternbusch.

On the eve of the German Peasants' Revolt, painter Joerg Ratgeb is occupied by a crisis of his own: finding a model for a Christ figure. He sets off on a journey to consult with his artistic role model, Albrecht Dürer. Although Ratgeb has always tried to stay out of the political conflict, his journey brings him face-to-face with peasant revolutionaries and the brutality and violence of their daily lives.