Edvard Munch: Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europes most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes back to the death from consumption of his mother, when he was five, his sisters death, and his near death at 13 from pulmonary disease. The film finds enduring significance in Munchs brief affair with Mrs. Heiberg and his participation in the café society of anarchist Hans Jaeger in Christiania and later in Berlin with Strindberg. Through it all comes Munchs melancholy and his desire to render on canvas, cardboard, paper, stone, and wood his innermost feelings.