Leonora im Morgenlicht

Leonora in the Morning Light

Feature film based on the biography of the outstanding surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington. In the 1930s, Carrington broke with the social expectations of her time, joined the Surrealist movement in Paris and met the painter Max Ernst, with whom she had a long and passionate love affair. She also became close friends with André Breton and Joan Miró. While the world was in a state of political upheaval, she tried to hold her own between artistic inspiration, personal passion and inner crises. At the beginning of the Second World War, she fled to Mexico, where she found her artistic freedom and became one of the country's most famous painters. The film accompanies Carrington on this journey from Europe to the Mexican jungle and sheds light on her creative development and how she dealt with visions and psychological challenges.