Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM, set in early-twentieth-century Vienna where a young painter upends what audiences expect of the human body.

Schiele's nude work is raw enough to thrill some viewers and outrage others. Two women keep him standing: Gerti, his younger sister and first model, and Wally, the lover whose face survives in his celebrated canvas "Death and the Maiden." Between poverty, scandal and an arrest for "immorality," he keeps chasing the one form worth risking everything for.

Director Dieter Berner skips the polished biopic for a study of obsession — cold, sensual, Viennese modernism filling every frame. Noah Saavedra plays Schiele as nervy and magnetic. A film for anyone drawn to early-1900s artists and Austrian Expressionism. Stream Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden online on iFILM.