Tikotin - a life devoted to Japanese Art
Realizador Santje Kramer
Países Netherlands
Duração 76 min
Sinopse
His passion for Japanese art brings a famous German-Jewish art dealer all over the world. Two World Wars and a series of personal adversities later, the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art shines on Mount Carmel in Haifa. The art dealer travels on, indefatigable. Twenty-five years after his death, his grandson tries to unravel the story of his grandfather. Behind the success story and the exciting adventures, he finds a family man who cannot prevent his family from falling apart, Hero or Egoist? Family man or eternal Bachelor?, In the documentary “Tikotin” we follow a grandson who is in search of the turbulent history of his grandfather Felix Tikotin (1893 – 1986), Jewish-German dealer in Japanese art., At first, he is just trying to unravel the thrilling story of an adventurous man. Battles in the trenches near the Somme, exiting travels to Japan with the Trans Siberian Express in the 1920’s. The opening of Felix’ gallery on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in 1927, next to Gloria Palast, the theater where Marlene Dietrich appeared in Der Blaue Engel. The flight from Nazi Germany to Amsterdam, Felix’ marriage in New York, his hiding in The Netherlands during World War II., Gradually Jaron realizes his jolly old grandfather must have been a man who did not speak about the pain and tragedy in his life. He managed to survive both World Wars, he rebuilt his art business again and again, he accomplished almost everything that he wanted business wise, but he could not prevent the two suicides in his family.
His passion for Japanese art brings a famous German-Jewish art dealer all over the world. Two World Wars and a series of personal adversities later, the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art shines on Mount Carmel in Haifa. The art dealer travels on, indefatigable. Twenty-five years after his death, his grandson tries to unravel the story of his grandfather. Behind the success story and the exciting adventures, he finds a family man who cannot prevent his family from falling apart, Hero or Egoist? Family man or eternal Bachelor?, In the documentary “Tikotin” we follow a grandson who is in search of the turbulent history of his grandfather Felix Tikotin (1893 – 1986), Jewish-German dealer in Japanese art., At first, he is just trying to unravel the thrilling story of an adventurous man. Battles in the trenches near the Somme, exiting travels to Japan with the Trans Siberian Express in the 1920’s. The opening of Felix’ gallery on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in 1927, next to Gloria Palast, the theater where Marlene Dietrich appeared in Der Blaue Engel. The flight from Nazi Germany to Amsterdam, Felix’ marriage in New York, his hiding in The Netherlands during World War II., Gradually Jaron realizes his jolly old grandfather must have been a man who did not speak about the pain and tragedy in his life. He managed to survive both World Wars, he rebuilt his art business again and again, he accomplished almost everything that he wanted business wise, but he could not prevent the two suicides in his family.