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.

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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