Watch: Das große Museum 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – An in-depth look at daily life at one of the most famous cultural institutions in the world, The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna..
Plot: This feature documentary portrays one of the most important museums in the world, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. It presents a unique look behind the scenes of this fascinating institution and encounters a number of charismatic protagonists and their working fields unfolding the museum’s special world – as an art institution as well a vehicle for state representation.
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Very interesting
Unfortunately there are no subtitles – so if you don’t speak or understand Austrian you must just watch this for the interior look of this mammoth museum.If you are really interested – (as I was in certain parts) – what the people are actually saying is unnecessary because you can understand whats happening by just seeing what they are doing. Such as in the art restoration. But mostly you are left wondering.
For me personally the most interesting part of this documentary was at the very end as the camera pans through the ancient works tucked away in storage – certainly the most beautiful objects – and then the final scene of Tower of Babel by Brugel, and it’s implied message of ‘this too shall pass’.
One for the art lovers
“Das große Museum” is an Austrian 95-minute film from 2014, so still relatively new. It is mostly in the German language and the most known career effort at this point by writer and director Johannes Holzhausen. They went with the approach of not including a narrator, so most of the time it is a very silent film and it lives from the visual side. Occasionally you hear the people in it, the staff of The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna talk, but that’s really all you will be hearing. Unless you make the mistake to go for a version that was made for Austrian television and has a female narrator say everything you see. It’s okay for the blind, but if you can see, you really don’t wanna go for that one.The film tells us about work at the museum I just mentioned. This includes watching the budget when buying new exhibits, testing the alarm system, discussing which exhibits to put where, rooms being restored and all kinds of other aspects. This not a film that will get you interested in the world of art, paintings or sculptures. It will not sparkle your interest from 0% upwards. Like with most other films and forms of entertainment, you will need an advance interest to really enjoy this insight into the life of a museum employee. It maybe also helps if you have seen the Vienna museum live already or if you work in a museum yourself or study something in that direction. But I will not let my personal bias drag down my rating here as the execution is competent overall and the film really does exactly as you would expect from the title. For me personally, it is not near the best films or even documentaries from 2017, but I can see people with a different area of interest pretty much enjoying the hell out of the watch here. This is why overall I give “The Great Museum” a thumbs-up here. Worth checking out, even if I am not too enthusiastic about. Then again, the dry subject and fact-based, almost sobering, execution makes it difficult to really feel something during these 1.5 hours.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Documentary
Director Johannes Holzhausen
Writer Johannes Holzhausen, Constantin Wulff
Actors Arnout Balis, Christian Beaufort-Spontin, Marcello Farabegoli
Country Austria
Awards 3 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
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Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format HDCAM
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format DCP