George Grosz

This dramatisation of the life of George Grosz (1893-1959) uses pointed illustration from his work as well as archive film. His own words and those of his contemporaries form a narration. Best-known for his savage caricatures of the enemies of the Weimar Republic, he displayed a morbid (and ambivalent) fascination for his country's moral decay. A dreamer and a bourgeois at heart, he spent thirty anti-climactic years in the USA, sinking into cynicism, alcoholism and poverty.