Winckelmann's Travels

Winckelmann's Travels is a 1990 German drama film co-written and directed by Jan Schütte. It premiered at the 47th edition of the Venice Film Festival, in the Venice International Film Critics' Week sidebar.

Cast

as Ernst Winckelmann
Susanne Lothar as Aline Maas
Traugott Buhre as Vater Maas
Udo Samel as Rüdiger
Mine-Marei Wiegandt as Rosa
Mathias Gnädinger as Berner
Jan Biczycki as Niederzu
Axel Milberg as Wöhler

Reception

A contemporary Variety review noted that "Schutte’s new film isn't as appealing as his first feature, the amiable Dragon Chow", "has a modest charm, but it’s pretty slight material" and "shows a director with a special, sensitive talent". La Stampa's film critic Piero Zanotto praised the film, which "seems an almost intangible little thing, made of nothing. Instead, its narrative mechanisms works very smoothly and the psychologies are all very well focused" and the film is "beautiful because it is sincere, built around characters with whom each of us can identify". Harry Rowohlt from Die Zeit described the film as "beautifully sad".