Marc Chagall: Profile Of The Artist DVD

The artist Marc Chagall died in March 1985, at the age of ninety-seven. For nearly eighty years he painted in a unique style that captivated generations of art lovers and both fascinated and infuriated his critics. This program was made very shortly before Chagall's death and is the last film made about this great artist during his lifetime. It looks at his work through the eyes of a young English painter whose curiosity about the artist is aroused when he finds he is living in Chagall's old studio in Paris. The camera follows the young man as he travels through France on the trail of the enigmatic artist.