In the Spring of 2016, two calls for proposals connected with Ivan Cankar (1876-1918) were made by RTV Slovenija. The aim was to broadcast a feature length documentary in December 2018 to mark the centenary of his death, while at the same time to open a competition for a treatment for a feature film about Cankar. This prompted me to start thinking about what shape a film about the writer's life should take. I tried to put together a script primarily from Cankar's works, from his correspondence with those closest to him, and from a number of published testimonies. The text focuses above all on the relationship with Albina and Steffi Löffler, with whom he lived for almost ten years in Vienna. It also touches upon some other moments in Cankar's life that formed the basis for a script.
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