Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
Acting
Silberschneider's Mahler: wounded ego in a three-piece suit.
Writing
The single Freud session as entire narrative engine.
Production
Belle Époque Vienna you can practically smell.
Director
Percy Adlon
Johannes Silberschneider
Gustav Mahler
Karl Markovics
Sigmund Freud
Friedrich Mücke
Walter Gropius
Eva Mattes
Anna Sofie Schindler-Moll
Karl Fischer
Carl Moll
Lena Stolze
Justine Mahler-Rosé
Michael Dangl
Bruno Walter
Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg
Berta Zuckerkandl
Michael Rotschopf
Alfred Roller
Manuel Witting
Gustav Klimt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Alma Mahler outlived both men and married two more times, collecting genius like stamps.
The film cleverly inverts the typical biopic: the famous composer is secondary to his wife's desires.
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