Vienna, spring 1912. The young widow Alma Mahler, the Grande Dame of Viennese Society, is urged by her lover the Bauhaus-architect Walter Gropius to make their relationship public. Shortly after her husband’s death the world-renowned composer Gustav Mahler, 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, 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.

Cast / Emily Cox , Valentin Postlmayr , Anton von Lucke , Tatiana Pauhofová , Brigitte Karner , Wilfried Hochholdinger    Writer / Dieter Berner , Hilde Berger    DoP / Jakub Bejnarowicz    Editor / Britta Nahler , Christoph Brunner    Sound / Patrick Storck    Music / Stefan Will    Costumes / Katarína Štrbová Bieliková    Make-Up / Marc Hollenstein    Set Designer / Su Erdt

Release date / 30 November 2023

Screening time

FEB 20 / 14:15 / CinemaxX 9
FEB 21 / 13:00 / Virtual Cinema 5

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