Tamara de Lempicka—The Queen of Art Déco (2022)
Overview
Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka, icon of the 1920s. Her art deco paintings of women in cars or in evening dress adorn book covers and break auction records. But who was she? The ARTE documentary by Grimme Prize-winning author Sylvie Kürsten ventures a self-portrait of Lempicka, narrated and played by Nicole Heesters.
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Directed By
Sylvie Kürsten
Crew
Sylvie Kürsten
Chris Valentien
Giandomenico Pennino
Jan Rehwinkel
Robert Sandow
Daria Kornysheva
Bettina Catharina Proske
Maja Pesa
Augusto Castellano
Pierre Brand
Marco Dausel
TOP CAST
Nicole Heesters
Tamara de Lempicka
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