The man who turned theater into sorcery—and his son finally tells the truth.
"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his Jedermann production on August 22, 1920, he founded the Salzburg Festival.
Direction
Gottfried's filial love letter disguised as biography.
Production
Rare footage of pre-war Salzburg that feels stolen from time.
Director
Gottfried Reinhardt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gottfried Reinhardt had to smuggle some of this footage out of East Germany, making the documentary itself an act of exile.
Max Reinhardt's Salzburg Festival essentially invented the modern concept of 'destination theater'—tourists traveling for culture, not just beaches.
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