Clara

Geliebte Clara

France, Hungary, Germany

2008

107 Min

Color

German

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Nicole-Lise Bernheim, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Colo Tavernier

CAST Martina Gedeck, Pascal Greggory, Malik Zidi, Béla Fesztbaum, Péter Takátsy, Aline Annessy, Brigitte Annessy, Marine Annessy, Sascha Caparros, Clara Eichinger

PROD DES Uwe Szielasko

Berlinale (German Cinema), São Paulo (International Perspective)

Synopsis

Focuses on the turbulent love life of German pianist Clara Schumann. Explores the difficulties of her marriage with her husband Robert as they move to Dusseldorf in 1850, when Robert grows increasingly ill and Clara ever more in enraptured by the much younger composer Johannes Brahms. –inbaseline

Director

Helma Sanders-Brahms

Helma Sanders-Brahms was born in Emden in 1940. She attended the drama school for music and theater in Hanover, and studied German and English Languages in Cologne. She worked as a television announcer for WDR and from 1976-1969 became a guest student with both Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Corbucci. Under the Pavement Lies the Beach became her breakthrough in 1975. Heinrich (1976), her film on the life and death of the German poet Heinrich von Kleist, was awarded the German Film Award in 1977. Her film Germany, Pale Mother (1980) remains an international success today and is one of the classics of German cinema. Her other films include: Shirin’s Wedding (1975), No Mercy No Future (1981), The Future of Emily (1984), Laputa (1986), Manouevres (1989), Apple Trees (1991), My Heart is Mine Alone (1997), Colour of Soul (2003), and Clara (2008). —german films