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Geliebte Clara
French release poster
Directed byHelma Sanders-Brahms
Written by
Produced byAlfred Huermer
StarringMartina Gedeck
Pascal Greggory
Malik Zidi
CinematographyJürgen Jürges
Edited byIsabelle Devinck
Music byJohannes Brahms
Clara Schumann
Robert Schumann
Distributed byBodega Films (France)
Release dates
  • 31 October 2008 (2008-10-31) (Deutsche Filmfestival in Tokyo)
  • 4 December 2008 (2008-12-04) (Germany)
  • 13 May 2009 (2009-05-13) (France)
Running time
107 minutes
CountriesGermany
France
Hungary
LanguageGerman

Geliebte Clara ("Beloved Clara") is a Franco-German-Hungarian 2008 film, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms, her last film before her 2014 death, about the pianist Clara Schumann and her marriage with the composer Robert Schumann.[1]

Plot

After a performance of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor in Hamburg, where the couple get to know the young composer Johannes Brahms, Clara and Robert Schumann take up residence in their new home in Düsseldorf, where Robert begins his new job as musical director. The demands of composition of his new symphony, the Rhenish Symphony, leads to tension between him and Clara.

A little later Brahms introduces a couple of his own compositions to the Schumanns and they are impressed by his compositional and pianistic skills. Allowing him to stay with them, Brahms lovingly cares for their children. Robert's work on the Rhenish Symphony continues to suffer, and he struggles with an addiction to the drug laudanum, on which he is soon dependent. There is further tension between him and his wife, who is expecting another child. Shortly after the successful premiere of the Rhenish Symphony, Schumann becomes acquainted with Dr. Richartz who offers him help with his health problems.

Schumann sees the talented Brahms as his successor, but Brahms leaves the Schumann household when he realizes that he feels more than just friendship for Clara. Additionally the Schumanns are troubled with financial problems.

Robert tries in vain to take his own life, by jumping into the River Rhine, but accepts the offer of Dr. Richartz to be a patient at his sanatorium at Endenich in Bonn. Brahms returns to help Clara to care for children. The two tour together to raise money for the family, while Robert is a patient at the institute. Eventually Clara and Brahms travel to Bonn, to say a final farewell.

After Robert's death, Brahms and Clara realise that their relationship can never be truly fulfilled, but Brahms celebrates another success with the premiere of his First Piano Concerto, with Clara as soloist.

Cast

Critical reception

The Encyclopedia of International Film said: "The film suffers not only to its static camera, but especially on the miscast of Robert Schumann. Despite the usual quiet and nuanced acting actress to convey feelings so neither understandable nor noise, nor life force."

References

  1. ^ "Geliebte Clara". imdb.com. 4 December 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2017.

External links

Films directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms
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