MEDIA
THE ZURICH AFFAIR
WAGNER'S ONE AND ONLY LOVE
Running time ............. 105 min.
Genre ......................... Drama
Year ............................ 2021
Language ................... English / Swiss German
Subtitles ..................... English / German
Country of Origin ....... Switzerland
Format ....................... DCP 4K, 2.35:1, 25fps, colour / Sound: Dolby Digital
World Rights .............. Syquali Crossmedia AG
ISAN No. ................... 0000-0004-B6D3-0000-0000-0000-D
DISTRIBUTION:
Cinema rights – World-wide: Syquali Crossmedia AG
Home Video rights – World-wide: Naxos Audiovisual
TV rights – Europe, Switzerland, Japan and Russia:
ORF Enterprise
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 affair.
The beginning of modernity in Zurich.
CAST & CREW VITA
Sophie Auster - Mathilde Wesendonck
Joonas Saartamo - Richard Wagner
Julienne Pfeil - Minna Wagner
Rüdiger Hauffe - Otto Wesendonck
Michael Volle - The Singer
Roland Bonjour - Johann Jacob Sulzer
Dagna Vinet-Litzenberger - Eliza Wille
Caspar Kaeser - Georg Herwegh
Lotti Happle - Emma Herwegh
Patrick Rapold - Franz Liszt