THE ZURICH AFFAIR - WAGNER'S ONE AND ONLY LOVE (2021)
Fiction, 105 min.
Original Version: English, colour, DCP.
ISAN: 0000-0004-B6D3-0000-0000-0000-D
One by one, candles are being replaced by paraffin lamps. More as 170 years ago Switzerland was the only country in Europe with a democratic constitution. After the failed German Revolution there were more as 12000 refugees in Switzerland.
In Zurich, composer Wagner is working on his new opera: “Tristan and Isolde”. The Tristan chord as a description of the times. Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate Wagner. Mathilde is turning from a loving mother into a muse of the new music. The whole city is talking about the Zurich liaison. The beginning of modernity in Zurich.
CREW
Author & Director JENS NEUBERT
Director of Photography HARALD GUNNAR PAALGARD
Editor JENS TOIVAKAINEN
Original Music and Audio Producer TORSTEN RASCH
Costumes ODILE HAUTEMULLE
VFX MARTIN HOFFMANN
Casting Consultant & Production Manager NINA MOSER
Piano played by ANDREAS HAEFLIGER, ANNIKA TREUTLER, HIROKO IMAI
Conducted by ECKEHARD STIER
Music by LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, RICHARD WAGNER, FRANZ LISZT
Music performed by THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CAST
SOPHIE AUSTER
as Mathilde Wesendonck
JOONAS SAARTAMO
as Richard Wagner
JULIENNE PFEIL
as Minna Wagner
RÜDIGER HAUFFE
as Otto Wesendonck
CHEYENNE TANNER
as Myrrha Wesendonck
MICHAEL VOLLE
as The Singer
PATRICK RAPOLD
as Franz Liszt
ROLAND BONJOUR
as Johann Jakob Sulzer
CASPAR KAESER
as Georg Herwegh
LOTTI HAPPLE
as Emma Herwegh
DAGNA LITZENBERGER-VINET
as Eliza Wille
LEONARDO NIGRO
as The Tinsmith
JOE FENNER
as Usenbenz
HANS-JOERG FREY
as Hotel Director Baur
MICHAEL GEMPART
as Riese
OLIVER STEIN
as Gottfried Semper
LUCA LEONETTI
as Hans von Bülow
LISA BRAND
as Cosima von Bülow
FESTIVALS
The Zurich Liaison (2019) - 113 min.
Shanghai International Film Festival 2019 - International Panorama Program,
15.-24.06.2019
The Zurich Affair (2021) - 105 min.
Zurich Film Festival - Sounds section 02.10.2021
Beirut Art Film Festival 20.11.2021
Habitat International Film Festival, New Delhi
08.05.2022
