Clara // Geliebte Clara
( Hungary / Germany / France, 2008, 109 min. )
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Pascal Greggory, Malik Zidi, Clara Eichinger, Aline Annessy
In 1850, Robert Schumann, his wife Clara and their five children settle down in Duesseldorf where he has accepted a position as musical director. For the resourceful musician, who is considered more as one of the world’s greatest composer than a conductor, it turns to be a bad decision. Nor is it a happy period for Clara, who is reduced to the role of housewife instead of acclaimed concert pianist performing throughout Europe to sold-out halls. That is, until she meets young, brilliant Johannes Brahms. Clara and Johannes fall for one another. Robert, who is sick and suffering from severe depression, attempts to drown himself in the river Rhine on Carnival Monday. His life is saved and he commits himself to a sanatorium. When Robert dies two years later, all the obstacles seem to have disappeared for the lovers. Clara, however, refuses to marry again. But she will go on playing Robert’s and Johannes’ music in the world’s concert halls, expressing her feelings for him and for the moments of darkness they both experienced.
Film is screened in the Films Around the World
Screening shedule
– only for press
20 June
23 June
