ALLGEMEIN Spielfilm
GENRE Drama
LÄNGE 88 min
SPRACHE Deutsch | Englisch
A Film AG production
In Co-production with Turnus Film, Wüste Film and Dawson Films
Produced with financial support of Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fund, FISA – Film Industry Support Austria, MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, FiSS - Filmstandortförderung, Federal Office of Culture, Zürcher Filmstiftung, Czech Film Fund, Lower Austria and Prague Film Fund
In collaboration with ORF, ZDF, Swiss Radio und TV SRF, SRG SSR and blue+.
SYNOPSIS
Vienna, spring 1912. The young widow Alma Mahler (Emily Cox), the Grande Dame of Viennese Society, is urged by her lover the Bauhaus-architect Walter Gropius (Anton von Lucke) to make their relationship public. Shortly after her husband’s death the world-renowned composer Gustav Mahler (Marcello De Nardo), she believes her reputation and the premiere of Gustav’s Symphony No 9 in jeopardy. Furthermore, she feels more and more strongly that she does not want to subject herself again to the dependence to a man in who’s shadow she cannot live her own creative potential. She meets the radical artist Oskar Kokoschka (Valentin Postlmayr), an Enfant Terrible of Viennese Society despite his youth. Alma ventures into a wild affair, a love-hate relationship, that threatens both of their existences.
EMILY COX Alma Mahler
VALENTIN POSTLMAYR Oskar Kokoschka
TÁŇA PAUHOFOVÁ Lilly Lieser
ANTON VON LUCKE Walter Gropius
WILFRIED HOCHHOLDINGER Adolf Loos
VIRGINIA HARTMANN Bessi
GERALD VOTAVA Peter Altenberg
CORNELIUS OBONYA Franz Ferdinand
MEHMET ATEŞÇİ Bruno Walter
MARCELLO DE NARDO Gustav Mahler
BRIGITTE KARNER Anna Moll
und ROLAND KOCH Carl Moll
WRITTEN BY Hilde Berger & Dieter Berner
DIRECTED BY Dieter Berner
DOP Jakub Bejnarowicz
EDITOR Christoph Brunner
INTIMACY COORDINATOR Doris Uhlich
MUSIC Stefan Will
PRODUCTION DESIGN Su Erdt
COSTUME DESIGN Katarína Štrbová Bieliková
MAKE-UP DESIGN Marc Hollenstein
SOUND MIXER Patrick Storck
SOUND DESIGN Felix Roggel
Re-Recording Mixer Richard Borowski
PRODUCER Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz (AT)
CO-PRODUCER Anita Wasser, Michael Steiger (CH); Stefan Schubert (GER) and Monika Kristl (CZ)
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Björn Vosgerau
LINE-PRODUCER Beatrice Hallenbarter
CASTING Rita Waszilovics
International Film Festival of India in Goa, Indien, 2022 - Opening Film
INTERNATIONAL SALES
Picture Tree International
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GERMANY
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SALES SWITZERLAND
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