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This documentary explores the life of the abstract painter and experimental filmmaker who was a major force in redefining art in the 20th century. In collaboration with friends, Richter was at the leading edge of the European Avant Garde. After being forced out of Europe by the Nazis in 1941, Richter escaped to the U.S. where he became a prophet of modernism for a generation of young American artist/filmmakers, who would galvanize into the New American Cinema movement.