USA: NEW BRUCE BERESFORD FILM " BRIDE OF THE WIND" STARRING JONATHAN PRICE AND SARAH WYNTER TELLS THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED MAHLER

Record ID: 391477

  • Title: USA: NEW BRUCE BERESFORD FILM " BRIDE OF THE WIND" STARRING JONATHAN PRICE AND SARAH WYNTER TELLS THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED MAHLER
  • Date: 28th June 2001
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (RECENT) (REUTERS) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR BRUCE BERESFORD SAYING "Well it was difficult to, I mean, re-creating sort of pre World War I Vienna was quite tough, because we didn't have a massive budget but the film was ambitious. I mean, it had to look very big. We had scenes of Mahler conducting his symphony in the hall, I mean there was
  • Embargoed: 13th July 2001 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA1CYJ8VKGNGQPVEWOBOMPSTDPY
  • Story Text: Every generation has its muse. In ancient Greece, there was Helen of Troy. In the Middle Ages, there was the Mona Lisa. And in turn-of-the-century Vienna, there was Alma: a brilliant, sexy young musician who aroused the passions of Europe's greatest artists. Alma seduced lover after lover who changed the world - yet, it was she who ultimately changed each of them.
    Europe's most famous men composed groundbreaking symphonies for Alma, painted modern masterpieces of her beauty, wrote poetry to move her, designed innovative buildings inspired by her spirit. But no one could possess Alma for long. Her own unfulfilled dreams continued to drive her from genius to genius seeking the one thing she could not get from love: freedom. Few today know Alma's story, but it is a riveting true tale of creativity and seduction, of art and love, and of the sacrifices one remarkable woman, a century ahead of her time, made in her attempt to have it all.
    In the midst of Vienna's explosive Golden Age of artistic, musical and scientific exploration, the irrepressible Alma Schindler was involved in tumultuous marriages and affairs with some of the 20th Century's most riveting men including the daring composer Gustav Mahler, the expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka, the influential modern architect Walter Gropius and the accomplished novelist Franz Werfel.
    Starring as Alma, newcomer Sarah Wynter stars opposite two-time Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce, who portrays the perfection-obsessed Gustav Mahler.
    With "Bride of the Wind" award-winning director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Double Jeopardy), brings Alma's passionate true story to life.
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