{{short description|2020 film by Carlo S. Hintermann}} {{Infobox film | name = The Book of Vision | image = The Book of Vision poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Film poster | director = Carlo S. Hintermann | screenplay = {{plainlist| * Carlo S. Hintermann * Marco Saura }} | producer = {{plainlist| * Gerardo Panichi * Robin Monotti Graziadei * Vera Graziadei * Sébastien Delloye * Jerome Bellavista Caltagirone }} | starring = {{plainlist| * Charles Dance * Lotte Verbeek * Sverrir Gudnason }} | cinematography = Jörg Widmer | editing = Piero Lassandro | music = Hanan Townshend | studio = {{plainlist| * Citrullo International * Luminous Arts Productions * Entre Chien et Loup * Rai Cinema }} | distributor = Parkland Entertainment | released = {{Film date|2020|9|3|Venice|ref1=<ref name="deadline"/>|2021|7|8|Italy|2023|1|20|United Kingdom}} | runtime = 99 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 98:34--><ref>{{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}}</ref> | country = {{plainlist| * Italy * United Kingdom * Belgium }} | language = English | budget = | gross = $115,061<ref name="BOM">{{Cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1979351809/weekend/?sort=numTheaters&sortDir=asc&ref_=bo_rl__resort |title=The Book of Vision |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=November 1, 2025}}</ref> }} '''''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.<ref name="deadline"/><ref name="variety"/>
It was selected as the opening film of the International Critics' Week at the 77th Venice International Film Festival.<ref name="deadline">{{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}}</ref><ref name="variety">{{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}}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
== Cast == * Charles Dance as Johan Anmuth * Lotte Verbeek as Eva / Elizabeth * Sverrir Gudnason as Stellan / Dr Nils Lindgren * Filippo Nigro * Isolda Dychauk * Rocco Gottlieb * Justin Korovkin as Günter * Giselda Volodi * Vera Graziadei as Rivka Sorkin / Mrs Dobileit
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|4016312|The Book of Vision}}
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