''The Book of Vision'' is a 2020 psychological

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directed by Carlo S. Hintermann (in his narrative feature directorial debut) and starring

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Lotte Verbeek Lotte Verbeek (born 24 June 1982) is a Dutch actress, dancer and model. She is known for her role as Giulia Farnese in '' The Borgias'' television series created by Neil Jordan, and as Geillis Duncan in the Starz series '' Outlander''. Early li ...

and Sverrir Gudnason.

Terrence Malick Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker. His films include '' Days of Heaven'' (1978), '' The Thin Red Line'' (1998), for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenp ...

serves as an executive producer. It was selected as the opening film of the International Critics' Week at the

77th Venice International Film Festival The 77th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 2 to 12 September 2020, albeit in a "more restrained format" due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Australian actress Cate Blanchett was appointed as the President of the Jury. '' The Ti ...

Plot

In present day, young doctor Eva leaves her promising career behind to study

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, questioning everything from her nature to her body, her illness and sealed fate. Johan Anmuth is an 18th-century

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

n physician in perpetual struggle between the rise of

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and ancient forms of animism. The ''Book of Vision'' is a manuscript that sweeps these two existences up, blending them into a never-ending vortex. Nothing expires in its time. Only what you desire is real, not merely what happens.

Cast

as Johan Anmuth *

as Eva / Elizabeth * Sverrir Gudnason as Dr Nils Lindgren *

Filippo Nigro Filippo Nigro (born 3 December 1970) is an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Nigro studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Lina Wertmüller. After a minor role in the 2001 Ferzan Ozpetek's drama film ''The Ignor ...

Isolda Dychauk Isolda Dychauk (born 4 February 1993) is a German actress of Russian descent. Career Isolda Dychauk was born in 1993 in Surgut (West Siberia) and moved to Berlin in 2002 with her mother. In addition to her native language Russian, she learn ...

* Rocco Gottlieb * Justin Korovkin as Günter *

Giselda Volodi Giselda Volodi (born 1959) is an Italian actress. She was born Giselda Mazzantini, in Tangier, Morocco, to the family of writer Carlo Mazzantini and artist Anne Donnelly. She is the sister of writer/actress Margaret Mazzantini and producer Moir ...

* Vera Graziadei as Rivka Sorkin / Mrs Dobileit

References

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