Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski

Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Polish sculptor Stanislaw Szukalski was a blazing presence in 1920s Warsaw — then the war erased him along with most of what he had made.

When German bombs leveled the city in 1939, the bulk of his work went with it. He fled to Los Angeles and spent decades in obscurity, still sculpting, still developing an elaborate pseudo-science he called Zermatism. In the 1970s, artists Robert Williams and Glenn Bray stumbled onto him and quietly began collecting what had survived. George DiCaprio — Leonardo's father, and a man who actually knew Szukalski in those late LA years — appears as a personal witness to the man himself.

Directed by Irek Dobrowolski, this Netflix documentary peels back a genuinely strange life, chapter by chapter. Stream Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski online on iFILM.