The Angel of History (movie)
Der Engel der Geschichte- Production country: Germany
- Producer: Eric Esser
- Production companies: MakeShiftMovies
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 10/9/2019
- Run time: 11 min.
Movie description
In 1921, German philosopher Walter Benjamin purchased a painting Angelus Novus by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee. Benjamin admired it and described it in detail in his essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” The picture portrays a restless angel who tasted reality. For a moment the angel freezes as if observing the inevitable turns of history. German director Eric Esser filmed at the Spanish-French border, which used to be a place of smuggling routes. It is across this border Walter Benjamin once escaped from the Nazis too.