Relax, Gal.  What's so great about Richter is not that he's "supernatural",
but that he's NATURAL -- he's a human being at our best, in the respects
you mentioned.  It's about time we stopped dumping on human nature -- "it's
only human", "I'm ONLY human" -- and started living up to our wonderful
potentials, all of us.

It is a grand film.  What's so sad to see is how much Richter was made
to suffer by that unspeakably evill system.  (And its former defenders are
still spitting at Elia Kazan for insisting that we mustn't let that system
take over America.) His inability to discuss his work at the end, his need
to read from his diaries was so sad.  But I've been reading some of the
articles on him (e.g.  the very first issue of International Piano
Quarterly which as it happened came out just after his death), and the
earlier interviews (excerpts from one in IPQ), and what's so great to see
is that he was, notwithstanding it all, able to find much joy in his music
and his life.

Allan Gotthelf