The Zurich Affair (2021)

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.
Habitat International Film Festival, New Delhi 08.05.2022
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