I saw the film in Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater Friday.
It's wonderful!  Richter remains an enigma in some ways, helped by the
filmmaker's lack of skill or lack of interest in psychological analysis
(very small "p" and "a"), and in part Richter's unwillingness to introspect
and explore.  But the man's greatness, his love of music, his dedication,
intensity, childlike smile, sometimes-realized joy in living, often sadness
and depression due to a political system so far down the rungs of hell that
none of us can really fathom it, was realized.  It is in two 77 minute
parts, and my friend and I could have seen two more and not been exhausted.

See it if you can, preferably in a theater, and not, when the video is
released, only at home, or if at home see it with the lights off, and no
breaks.  Lincoln Center is following this with an absolute orgy across a
couple of months of "Great Pianists on Film".  These are performance films
or clips, everyone from Hofmann to Moiseiwitsch to Cortot to ..  you name
it.  I can't wait.

Allan Gotthelf