Beloved Clara
Movie | |
---|---|
Original title | Beloved Clara |
Country of production | Germany , France , Hungary |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 2008 |
length | 107 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 6 |
Rod | |
Director | Helma Sanders-Brahms |
script | Helma Sanders-Brahms |
production | Alfred Hürmer |
music |
Johannes Brahms Clara Schumann Robert Schumann |
camera | Jürgen Juerges |
cut | Isabelle Devinck |
occupation | |
|
Beloved Clara is a German-French-Hungarian fictional film from 2008. The film is about the pianist Clara Schumann , who is married to the composer Robert Schumann , but will soon also be venerated by the composer Johannes Brahms .
action
After a performance of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in Hamburg, where they also met the young composer Johannes Brahms, Clara and Robert Schumann move into their new home in Düsseldorf, where Robert Schumann takes up his new position as music director.
During a rehearsal for his new symphony, the “ Rhenish ”, Robert Schumann showed his first state of exhaustion. When Schumann continues to compose the symphony at home, his wife jumps in at the rehearsals and successfully defends herself against the concerns of the orchestra about a woman as a conductor.
A little later Johannes Brahms introduces himself to the Schumann couple with his own composition. The Schumanns are impressed by Brahms' compositional and piano playing skills. They let him live with them, whereupon he lovingly takes care of the Schumanns' children.
While Robert was working on the "Rheinische", he suffered from increasingly severe headaches. He fights them with laudanum , on which he soon becomes dependent. There is tension between him and his wife, who is expecting another child. Shortly after the successful premiere of the "Rheinische", Schumann met the doctor Dr. Richarz , who offers him help with his health problems.
Robert Schumann sees the talented Brahms as his successor. This in turn moves out of the Schumann house when he realizes that he feels more than friendship for Clara Schumann. In addition, the Schumanns are plagued by financial problems.
When Robert Schumann tried in vain to take his own life by jumping into the Rhine, he accepted Dr. Richarz and becomes a patient in his institute in Bonn. Brahms comes back to help Clara look after the children while she goes on tour to finance the family needs. When it comes to an end with Robert, Clara and Brahms travel to Bonn to say goodbye to him.
After Robert's death, Brahms and Clara realize that there is no fulfillment for them. Brahms celebrates another success with the premiere of his First Piano Concerto with Clara as the soloist.
Reviews
“The film suffers not only from its static camera, but especially from the bad cast of Robert Schumann. In spite of the usual quiet and nuanced acting leading actress, neither comprehensible feelings nor force nor zest for life are conveyed. "
Web links
- Beloved Clara in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beloved Clara. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .