The Tugendhat House
Dieter Reifarth
This film will screen on
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
U.S. Premiere
Unfortunately, producer Filipp Goldscheider will no longer be in person at this screening.
On the crest of a hill looking out over Brno, Czech Republic, stands a magnificent concrete building, one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s earliest prototypes of modernist architecture in Europe. Built for a Jewish family by the name of Tugendhat in 1930, it was fled and abandoned during the Nazi occupation, only to resurface in the ensuing decades as a therapy center, a ballet academy, and a school for children suffering from scoliosis. The Tugendhat House zooms in on the many rises and falls of this great structure, and the cultures that have developed in its midst.