MAHLER AUF DER COUCH

(Mahler on the Couch), 2010

“Very witty and erotic…Percy Adlon is up to his old tricks in this delightful, artistically vigorous, and occasionally loony fantasia.”

– The Hollywood Reporter

Johannes Silberschneider  •  Barbara Romaner

Karl Markovics

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Eva Mattes, Friedrich Mücke, Lena Stolze, Nina Berten

A film by Percy and Felix Adlon

Music by Gustav Mahler

Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

A pelemele Film and Cult-Film production

Alma’s first affair, Mahler’s last symphony,

and Sigmund Freud’s interrupted vacation...

"During the late summer of 1910, a distraught Gustav Mahler journeyed to Holland to spend a single afternoon with a vacationing Sigmund Freud, and their one-time encounter serves as the departure point for this eccentric and expressionistic reverie on love, loss, and the birth of modern marriage."

– The Village Voice

Premiered at the Los Angeles International Film Festival, 2010

Opening Night film, New York Jewish Film Festival, 2011

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Shot in 4K/RED on location in Austria and Holland, 2009

German, 97 min

Subtitle options: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Screenplay by Percy and Felix Adlon

Produced by Eleonore Adlon
Director of Photography – Benedict Neuenfels
Editor – Jochen Künstler
Production Designers – Bernt Amadeus Capra

                                      Veronika Merlin
Costume Designer – Caterina Czepek

FILM MUSIC MAKING

WITH ESA-PEKKA SALONEN

Follows the maestro as he rehearses and records the music of Gustav Mahler, for the score of Percy and Felix Adlon's film MAHLER ON THE COUCH.

PRESS KIT

REVIEW:

VILLAGE VOICE

REVIEW: GERMAN

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN ON MAHLER

NATIONAL

CENTER FOR JEWISH FILM

NYT: MAHLER

IN MANHATTAN

POSTER