Basic
Info
Title:
Geliebte Clara
Genre:
Biography, Drama, Music
Country:
Germany, France, Hungary
Language:
German
Running
time: 107 minutes
Release
date: 4
December 2008 (Germany), 13 May 2009 (France)
Staff
Director:
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Producer:
Alfred Huermer
Screenplay
by: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Music:
Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann
Cinematography:
Jürgen Jürges
Edited
by: Isabelle Devinck
Cast
Martina Gedeck as Clara Schumann
Pascal Greggory as Robert Schumann
Malik Zidi as Johannes Brahms
Summary
"Geliebte Clara" is a
2008 Franco-German-Hungarian film directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms and the last
film she directed before her death in 2014. The film tells the story about the
pianist Clara Schumann and her marriage with the composer Robert Schumann.
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| Clara Schumann |
Plot
After performing Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor in Hamburg, where the Schumanns get to know the young composer Johannes Brahms, Clara and Robert Schumann live in a new home in Düsseldorf, where Schumann begins his new job as musical director.
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| Clara and Robert Schumann |
The demands for his new composition, the Rhenish Symphony, creates tension between him and Clara. Shortly thereafter, Brahms introduces some of his works to the Schumanns, and they are impressed by his compositional and pianistic skills. Allowed to stay with them,
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| Johannes Brahms |
Brahms takes care of their children. Shortly after the successful premiere of the Rhenish Symphony, Schumann gets to know Dr. Richartz who will help him with his health problems. Schumann considers the talented Brahms as his successor, but Brahms leaves Schumann's house when he realizes that he has feelings more than just friendship for Clara... (Continue)
Movie
Review
“Really Hearing the Music”
“Music draws you into the
story”
“Lifetime love story”
“Really good”
“Must see”
Interesting
stories about the film
1. Helma Sanders-Brahms, who was a
director and writer of the film, is a great-great-grandniece of depicted
composer Johannes Brahms in the film.
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| Helma Sanders-Brahms |
2. Nikolai Kinski, the actor
playing young Robert Schumann, is the half- brother of Nastassja Kinski, who
played Clara Schumann in the film “Frühlingssinfonie (1983).” However, the
opening scene of young Robert and young Clara was cut for theatrical release.
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| Frühlingssinfonie (1983) |
From this week, I would like to
introduce my film writer page to below links, which I established on the film
site “FilmFreeway,” to submit a video to a film festival in Germany, to which I
was invited at the beginning of this year.
Thank you.
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