Mahler on the Couch ( Mahler auf der Couch )

Mahler on the Couch (DVD) (*)

$21.99

Original Title: Mahler auf der Couch
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Felix O. Adlon
Percy Adlon

Written By:
Percy Adlon
Felix O. Adlon

Actors:
Johannes Silberschneider ..... Gustav Mahler
Barbara Romaner ..... Alma Mahler
Karl Markovics ..... Sigmund Freud
Friedrich Mücke ..... Walter Gropius
Eva Mattes ..... Anna Sofie Schindler-Moll
Lena Stolze ..... Justine Mahler-Rosé
Nina Berten ..... Anna von Mildenburg
Karl Fischer ..... Carl Moll
Mathias Franz Stein ..... Alexander von Zemlinsky
Max Mayer ..... Max Burckhard
Michael Dangl ..... Bruno Walter
Michael Rotschopf ..... Alfred Roller
Manuel Witting ..... Gustav Klimt
Simon Hatzl ..... Arnold Rosé
Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg ..... Berta Zuckerkandl

Synopsis:

August 1910. Devastated and confused by the discovery that his beloved wife Alma is having a passionate affair with architect Walter Gropius, controversial composer Gustav Mahler travels to Holland to consult with Sigmund Freud, who is on vacation in Leiden. Feeling humiliated and betrayed, Mahler initially refuses the couch, but when Freud wheels a camp bed into the room, he has no choice. Fiery yet full of humor, their encounter stretches into the night as Mahler vividly recounts his seduction of Alma, 19 years his junior, the beautiful darling of Vienna's arts scene. Alma and Mahler fall madly in love and marry, but he frustrates her ambitions to be a composer in her own right. When one of their daughters dies, their marriage begins to fall apart, culminating in Alma's infdelity. Next day, the two great men go their separate ways. Overjoyed with what he sees as his cure, Mahler travels to rejoin Alma... A suspenseful marital drama with detective Freud pulling the strings.

The Mahler in the title is, of course, the great Austrian composer and opera director Gustav Mahler, and the couch belongs to none other than Sigmund Freud. The maestro seeks out the father of psychoanalysis because he is absolutely freaking out over the marital betrayal of his wife, Alma. She has fallen for Walter Gropius, the architect who eventually will be a founder of the Bauhaus School and therefore will usher in modern architecture.

A young woman, her old husband, her lover - and Sigmund Freud. Summer 1910. A letter addressed to the 50-years old Gustav Mahler hits him like a bomb. The letter is addressed to him but should reach his young wife Alma. In his desperation he consults Sigmund Freud in Leyden, Holland. A marital drama from the world of symphonic music with a good portion of humor.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 26 February, 2011.

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