This captivating 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 center 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.
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: German
Director: Virpi Suutari
Producer: Timo Vierimaa, Virpi Suutari, Martti Suosalo
Writer: Virpi Suutari, Jussi Rautaniemi
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 14, 2021 Limited
Runtime: 1h 43m
Distributor: Film Movement
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)