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Summary: This exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture. [Film Movement]
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Runtime: 102 min
Rating: Not Rated
Official Site: https://www.filmmovement.com/aalto
Production: ARTE
Genres: Biography, History, Documentary
Country: FI
Languages: English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Swedish, Finnish
Director Credit
Virpi Suutari Director
Writer Credit
Jussi Rautaniemi Script
Virpi Suutari Writer
Principal Cast Credit
Aino Aalto Self - Architect
Alvar Aalto Self - Architect
Antonello Alici Self - Architect/Architectural Historian
David N. Fixler Self - Architect/Lecturer - Harvard University
Elissa Aalto Self
Harmon Goldstone Self - Architect
Harry Charrington Self - Professor Of Architecture - University Of Westminster
Juhani Pallasmaa Self - Architect/Professor Of Architecture
Nina Stritzler-Levine Self - Director - Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Peter Reed Self - Senior Deputy Director For Curatorial Affairs - MOMA
Cast Credit
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen Self - Professor Of Architecture - Yale University
Gail Fenske Self - Professor Of Architecture - Roger Williams University
Mark Lee Self - Architect/Professor Of Architecture - Harvard University
Renja Suominen-Kokkonen Self - Adjunct Professor - Universities Of Helsinki And Turku
Severi Parko Self - Professor
Producer Credit
Erkko Lyytinen Commissioning Editor: YLE
Jessica Hennessey Producer: Parallax Productions Inc. USA Unit
Jessie Torrance Producer: Parallax Productions Inc. USA Unit
Martti Suosalo Executive Producer
Philipp Komarov Producer: Strela Film, Russian Unit
Timo Vierimaa Producer
Virpi Suutari Executive Producer