:19:01
Munch, choosing to be true
to his vision,
:19:04
has painted the clouds
over the Kristiania fjord
:19:07
as he saw and felt them.
:19:10
He argues that if he experienced
clouds as blood
:19:14
during an agitated mood,
:19:16
then that is how
he should paint them.
:19:31
Accompanied by
his "anarchistic Schmiererei",
:19:34
Edvard Munch moves into
the room of a hotel
:19:37
in the Charlottenburg
district of Berlin.
:19:40
Memories and images
stored for over 20 years
:19:44
are about to break forth.
:19:47
All that is needed
is one final catalyst.
:19:52
On the corner of Neue Wilhelmstraße
and Unter den Linden,
:19:55
is a tavern, serving
over 900 kinds of liquor
:19:59
and nicknamed "The Black Pig",
:20:01
a meeting place for writers.
:20:03
Amongst them, now living in Berlin,
:20:06
August Strindberg, who holds court
in "The Black Pig",
:20:10
where, in the words of a historian,
:20:12
"he is virtually a tourist attraction
for the intelligentsia."
:20:17
Laura Marholm, journalist,
:20:19
who with her husband has given
financial aid to Strindberg,
:20:23
a source of growing resentment to the
poverty-stricken Swedish celebrity.
:20:28
With Strindberg in this room
:20:30
are as many Scandinavians
as there are Germans.
:20:34
Christian Krohg, who has accompanied
his wife Oda to Berlin,
:20:38
where he watches
her intense love affair
:20:41
with the Norwegian author
Gunnar Heiberg.
:20:45
Sigbjørn Obstfelder and,
next to him, Bengt Lidforss,
:20:50
Swedish botanical student,
:20:52
recently engaged
to a 12 year-old girl.
:20:56
Hermann Schlittgen,
painter and engraver.