Basic Info
Title: Mahler on the Couch
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Language: German
Running time: 98 minutes
Release date: June 24, 2010 (Los Angeles Film
Festival)
Staff
Director: Felix O. Adlon, Percy Adlon
Producer: Eleonore Adlon, Burkhard W.R. Ernst,
Konstantin Seitz
Screenplay: Felix O. Adlon, Percy Adlon
Music: Gustav Mahler
Cinematography: Benedict Neuenfels
Edited by: Jochen Kunstler
Cast
Johannes
Silberschneider as Gustav Mahler
Barbara
Romaner as Alma Mahler
Karl
Markovics as Sigmund Freud
Eva
Mattes as Anna Sofie Schindler-Moll
Friedrich
Mücke as Walter Gropius
Summary
"Mahler on the Couch" is a 2010 German film
directed by Percy Adlon and Felix Adlon. The film is a historical drama about
love between Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius, and the subsequent psychoanalysis
for Alma's husband, Gustav Mahler by Sigmund Freud.
Alma Mahler
Alma Mahler (Alma Schindler) was an Austrian composer,
writer, editor and socialite, born on 31 August 1879 and died on 11 December
1964. Musically active since her early years, she composed about 50 songs for
voice and piano, of which only 17 songs are known to survive. In her early
years, she had an affair with composer and conductor Alexander von Zemlinsky,
but their relationship did not last long. She became the wife of composer
Gustav Mahler, who was not interested in her compositions, and eventually fell
into depression as she was artistically suppressed. While her marriage was
struggling, she fell in love with Walter Gropius. Gustav began to encourage
Alma's works and helped prepare some of her works for publication, but died
shortly after attempting reconciliation in 1911. Then, Alma married Gropius in
1915, and they had a daughter, Manon Gropius.
Movie
Review
“Captivating story”
“Alma Mahler: Femme Fatale”
“An eccentric and expressionistic
reverie on love, loss, and the birth of modern marriage”
The Behind
Stories about the Film
1. This is the second film about
the love of Alma Schindler and Gustav Mahler in which Johannes Silberschneider
acted. The first film was "Bride of the Wind" (2001), in which he
played Alma's music teacher and lover, Alexander von Zemlinsky.
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| Bride of the Wind (2001) |
2. In the film, the scene where
Alma sheds tears while reading a part of Mahler's music was shot in one take.
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| Gustav and Alma Mahler |
3. In the film, Alma Mahler and
Walter Gropius, who are lovers, were played by a real couple, Barbara Romaner
and Friedrich Mücke.
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| Manon Gropius with her parents Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius (1918) |
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