With his paintings, copperplate engravings and woodcuts, Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important artists of the Renaissance. An obsessive, hedonist, visionary, networker and self-promoter, an eternal doubter and admonisher, a lover and seeker, in short: a modern man who was far ahead of his time. In a sensitive blend of fiction and documentary, the film Dürer, with a cast of top-class actors, tells of the life of the eccentric artist and of the stories behind his famous works.

Dürer’s work and his person (1471-1528) are still moving today — the hare, the folded hands, the apocalypse, the rosary feast and his sometimes extraordinarily intimate self-portraits. When you get right down to it, Albrecht Dürer probably invented the selfie. Its radiance seems unbroken even 500 years after his death.