''Inside the Uffizi'' (german: In den Uffizien) is a 2021 German documentary film about the

Uffizi The Uffizi Gallery (; it, Galleria degli Uffizi, italic=no, ) is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums ...

museum in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

. It was directed by

Corinna Belz Corinna Belz is a German documentary filmmaker. She is known for the films '' Gerhard Richter Painting'' (2011), '' Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late'' (2016) and '' Inside the Uffizi'' (2021). Life and career Corinna Belz studied philos ...

and Enrique Sánchez Lansch.

Synopsis

The film covers the

, a museum in

with more than 500 rooms, based on the

House of Medici The House of Medici ( , ) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici, in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century. The family originated in the Mug ...

's collection of paintings. Attention is given to the institution's staff, including

Eike Schmidt Eike Dieter Schmidt (born 22 April 1968) is a German art historian. Since November 2015 he has been director of the Uffizi in Florence. Life Born in Freiburg, he studied medieval and modern art at the University of Heidelberg. In the 1990s he s ...

, a German art historian who became its director in 2015.

Production

Filming took place during a total of 50 days over a period of 2 years.

Release

''Inside the Uffizi'' was released in Germany on 25 November 2021.

Reception

Birgit Rieger of ''

Der Tagesspiegel ''Der Tagesspiegel'' (meaning ''The Daily Mirror'') is a German daily newspaper. It has regional correspondent offices in Washington D.C. and Potsdam. It is the only major newspaper in the capital to have increased its circulation, now 148,000, s ...

'' compared ''Inside the Uffizi'' to ''

Gerhard Richter Painting ''Gerhard Richter Painting'' is a 2011 German documentary film about the artist Gerhard Richter. It was directed by Corinna Belz. It received the German Film Award for Best Documentary Film. Synopsis The film follows the contemporary artist Gerhar ...

'', a film by Belz from 2011, and contrasted the distance with which the Uffizi personnel is portrayed to the intimacy of the previous film. Simon Hauck of ''Kino-Zeit'' said ''Inside the Uffizi'' contains joy and fascination, has the form of an " art-film essay" and in its best moments "also functions as a documentary meta-film about the desire to look at oneself in the shadow of history and turbo-technology since the turn of the millennium". ''Inside the Uffizi'' was nominated for the

German Film Award The German Film Award (), also known as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the German film industry. Besides being the most important ...

for Best Sound.

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