GALLERY
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
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
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.
FILM MUSIC MAKING
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