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Max Ernst (1891-1976) is considered a pioneer of surrealist painting; his enigmatic, magical worlds delight and disturb the viewer: To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, this documentary tells his fascinating story from his early life in Germany up to his exile in the USA in the 1940s.

In June 1940, Max Ernst found himself in a threatening situation: While German troops were advancing towards the south of France, he was imprisoned with other German and Austrian citizens as a supposedly “hostile alien” in an internment camp near Aix-en-Provence. It would have been extremely dangerous and possibly even fatal for the Hitler-loathing Ernst, whose works the Nazis classified as “degenerate art,” to fall into German hands.

Proceeding from that moment, the documentary retrospectively tells the fascinating story of the epoch-making artist: free spirit, womaniser and anti-fascist. 25 years earlier, in the First World War, Ernst had fought for the country of his birth. His traumatising experiences at the front line – the “great madness” – became a key influence on his art. From that point on, Ernst was always a political artist who wanted to destroy the old, corrupt social order. Together with the Parisian surrealists clustered around André Breton, Ernst instigated a cultural revolution whose shockwaves travelled far beyond the insular world of art. With his 1937 work Der Hausengel – “The Trampeltier that destroys everything in its path” – Ernst created an allegory of the dictators of his time, which today seems more relevant than ever.

With rich archival material, elements of the graphic novel and contributions from art historians, the documentary tells the exciting story of Max Ernst in the first half of the last century.

	
Max Ernst - The Surrealist and the Fascist Monster (2026).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	52 min 39 s
Size: 	825 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 053 kb/s
BPP: 	0.040
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/7A0AC8837E4ED2F/Max_Ernst_-_The_Surrealist_and_the_Fascist_Monster_(2026).mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/f82df0994763c7cc94114a9e187e3dde/Max_Ernst_-_The_Surrealist_and_the_Fascist_Monster_(2026).mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, German, Polish

The post Daniel Guthmann – Max Ernst: Der Surrealist und das faschistische Trampeltier, AKA Max Ernst: The Surrealist and the Fascist Monster (2026) first appeared on Cinema of the World.