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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Featuring unprecedented access to an influential and multi-faceted institution, The Great Museum reveals the inner-workings of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the most important art institutions in the world. Widely known as the art palace that houses paintings by Rembrandt, Diego Velasquez, Pieter Brueghel, Peter Paul Rubens a...

Directed By: Johannes Holzhausen

Written By: Constantin Wulff, Johannes Holzhausen

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 34 m

The Great Museum

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Featuring unprecedented access to an influential and multi-faceted institution, The Great Museum reveals the inner-workings of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the most important art institutions in the world. Widely known as the art palace that houses paintings by Rembrandt, Diego Velasquez, Pieter Brueghel, Peter Paul Rubens a...

Directed By: Johannes Holzhausen

Written By: Constantin Wulff, Johannes Holzhausen

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Arnout Balis

Self - Direktor Centrum Rubenianum

Christian Beaufort-Spontin

Self - Direktor Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer

Marcello Farabegoli

Self - Mitarbeiter des Auktionshauses Dorotheum

Sylvia Ferino-Pagden

Self - Direktorin Gemäldegalerie

Heinz Fischer

Self - Bundespräsident der Republik Österreich

Paul Frey

Self - Kaufmännischer Geschäftsführer Kunsthistorisches Museum

Gerlinde Gruber

Self - Kuratorin Gemäldegalerie

Eva Götz

Self - Restauratorin Gemäldegalerie

Sabine Haag

Self - Generaldirektorin Kunsthistorisches Museum

Helene Hanzer

Self - Leiterin Restaurierwerkstätte Kunstkammer

Tatjana Hatzl

Self - Mitarbeiterin Besucherdienst

Franz Kirchweger

Self - Kurator Kunstkammer

Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner

Self - Direktorin Wagenburg und Monturdepot

Markus Langer

Self - Abteilungsleiter Õsterreichiste Präsidentschaftskanzlei

Neil MacGregor

Self - Director, British Museum

Franz Pichorner

Self - Stv. Generaldirektor Kunsthistorisches Museum und Direktor Archiv

Wolfgang Prohaska

Self - Emeritierter Kurator Gemäldegalerie

Paulus Rainer

Self - Geschäftsführender Direktor Kunstkammer

Ina Slama

Self - Restauratorin Gemäldegalerie

Ruth Strondl

Self - Mitarbeiterin Kommunikation & Marketing

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
66
56% Positive
5 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
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44% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Apr 23, 2015
In every sense, The Great Museum (Das grosse Museum) imparts a feeling of privilege — privilege on the part of those (the Hapsburgs) who built and opened Vienna's extraordinary Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1891, privilege among those lucky enough to work at such a rarified establishment and privilege on the part of any viewer of Johannes Holzhausen's wonderfully evocative and droll documentary.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 23, 2015
The Great Museum is a beautiful love letter to obsession and eccentricity, the love is given and received in equal measure. This, at its nature is what art should do, and what cinema strives for and rarely achieves, with this poetic discourse about the difficult question of what to do with the art of robber barons in relation towards a finality that befits such a collection.
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70
Apr 23, 2015
Holzhausen is respectful but not reverential, portraying the museum as a living thing that's being cared for with meticulous diligence.
By Serena Donadoni FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 23, 2015
There are no interviews, thankfully no voiceovers, and no music; Holzhausen respects the viewer’s intelligence, just as he respects the museum staff.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 23, 2015
A pleasing, high-minded film; also something of a palate-cleanser.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 23, 2015
The Great Museum, in comparison, feels like a cursory guided tour.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 23, 2015
The film creates a kind of romantic view of the minutiae of running a museum, yet it’s barely concerned with the actual artwork housed within. Maybe this won’t matter to the audience, if they find the mere idea of a museum fascinating on its own.
By Andrew Lapin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Navigator Film., ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen
Release Date Apr 24, 2015
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/dasgrossemuseum
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Awards

Diagonale, Austria
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Austrian Film Award, AT
• 1 Nomination

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