'All my criticism of modern art can be reduced to a single word: filth '. When he died in 1978 de Chirico was already a legend. He'd been an inspiration to the Surrealist movement in painting - one of the great names of 20th-century art.
His strange, dream-like city squares, his ' metaphysical interiors ', his part-human, part-mechanical 'mannequins', created an unforgettable world immediately recognisable as his.
The film includes the last interview recorded before his death, in which he talks about his life, his work and what he regards as the disaster of modern art.
Director REINER MORITZ
RM PRODUCTIONS. MUNICH