Bride of the Wind
2001 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Vienna, 1902: Alma Schindler meets Gustav Mahler. She beautiful, young, plays, and composes: music is her life. She becomes Mahler's lover, then he marries her, asking that she give up composing. She has two children, works as his assistant, does his books, saves him from debt, and feels stifled. In 1910, after the death of a child, she retreats to a spa where she falls in love with Walter Gropius. Will she go with him or stay with Mahler? She conducts an affair with the tempestuous Oskar Kokoschka and is stifled in another way. Then, she marries Gropius, who proves imperious. She leaves him for Franz Werfel: he finds her compositions and insists the public hear them.
Direction Bruce Beresford
Cast Sarah Wynter · Jonathan Pryce · Vincent Pérez · Simon Verhoeven · Gregor Seberg · Dagmar Schwarz · Wolfgang Hübsch · August Schmölzer · Marion Rottenhofer · Sophie Schweighofer · Johannes Silberschneider · Werner Prinz
Soundtrack Stephen Endelman
Screenplay Marilyn Levy
Cinematography Peter James
Original title Bride of the Wind
5.5
121 votes (FilmAffinity)
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