The Book of Vision

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| image = The Book of Vision poster.jpg

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| director = Carlo S. Hintermann

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Carlo S. Hintermann
Marco Saura

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Gerardo Panichi
Robin Monotti Graziadei
Vera Graziadei
Sébastien Delloye
Jerome Bellavista Caltagirone

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| cinematography = Jörg Widmer

| editing = Piero Lassandro

| music = Hanan Townshend

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Citrullo International
Luminous Arts Productions
Entre Chien et Loup
Rai Cinema

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| distributor = Parkland Entertainment

| released = {{Film date|2020|9|3|Venice|ref1=|2021|7|8|Italy|2023|1|20|United Kingdom}}

| runtime = 99 minutes{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-book-of-vision-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmda5mtg4 |title=The Book of Vision (2022) |website=British Film Classification Office |access-date=10 December 2022}}

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Italy
United Kingdom
Belgium

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| language = English

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The Book of Vision is a 2020 psychological drama film directed by Carlo S. Hintermann (in his narrative feature directorial debut) and starring Charles Dance, Lotte Verbeek and Sverrir Gudnason. Terrence Malick serves as an executive producer.

It was selected as the opening film of the International Critics' Week at the 77th Venice International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/07/the-book-of-vision-terrence-malick-venice-critics-week-1202978210/|title='The Book Of Vision', Exec Produced By Terrence Malick, To Open Venice Critics' Week|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Tom|last=Grater|date=6 July 2020|access-date=8 July 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/terrence-malick-book-of-vision-open-venice-critics-week-1234697841/|title=Terrence Malick-Produced Costume Drama 'The Book of Vision' to Open Venice Critics' Week (EXCLUSIVE)|work=Variety|first=Nick|last=Vivarelli|date=6 July 2020|access-date=8 July 2020}}

Plot

In present day, young doctor Eva leaves her promising career behind to study history of medicine, questioning everything from her nature to her body, her illness and sealed fate. Johan Anmuth is an 18th-century Prussian physician in perpetual struggle between the rise of rationalism and ancient forms of animism. The Book of Vision is a manuscript that sweeps these two existences up, blending them into a never-ending vortex. Nothing expires in its time. Only what you desire is real, not merely what happens.{{cite web|url=https://www.sicvenezia.it/en/films/the-book-of-vision/|title=The Book of Vision|website=sicvenezia.it|publisher=International Critics' Week|access-date=21 July 2020}}