Ivan Cankar experienced many things only after he has written about them. In the film, this link between his writing and his private life is depicted by live-action and animated scenes that draw exclusively on the writer’s works and letters to his loved ones. For an entire decade, he lived with the Löffler family in Vienna, where he wrote most of his impressive oeuvre. First, he grew very close to the lady of the house, then to her adolescent daughter Steffi. Back in Ljubljana, he got involved with several girls there, an attentive lover of a cheerful nature, accessible and highly intelligent. His popular public lectures reveal him as a passionate social democrat.
as Ivan Cankar
as Steffi Löffler
as Albina Löffler
as Malci Löffler
as Steffi Löffler Jr.
as Izidor Cankar
as Nina Bergman
as Milena Rohrman
as Alojz Kraigher
as Archbishop Stadler
as Karlo Cankar
as Ivan Grohar
as Fran Saleski Finzgar
as Alfred Löffler
as Willy Löeffler
