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Signaling one of many largest European packages to hit Monday’s Mipcom, “Mozart/Mozart,” the newest huge collection swing from Germany’s Story Home Footage, behind Beta Movie/RTL mega-hit “Sisi,” has been boarded by Germany’s ARD and its Austrian public broadcaster counterpart ORF.
In additional information, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim, co-director of “The Zweiflers,” this yr’s Canneseries finest collection and German TV Awards winner, is about to helm the collection.
Based mostly on considered one of Europe’s largest IPs and now backed by ARD, the largest of Europe’s public broadcasters, “Mozart/Mozart” is created by Andreas Gutzeit – co-founder of Story Home Footage, the worldwide studio of the Bavaria Movie Group, and producer and showrunner on “Sisi” – and Swantje Oppermann, a employees author on “Dignity” and a Story Home growth govt.
Bavaria Media Worldwide will deliver the six-part present to market at Mipcom.
“Mozart/Mozart” is partly impressed by historic truth. Maria Anna Mozart was hailed as a toddler prodigy. When performing with little brother Wolfgang Amadeus, she acquired prime billing. Even when pressured to cease performing in public when she reached a marriageable age, she continued to compose, however her music was misplaced and by no means carried out in public.
“Far too usually, girls have been written out of historical past, ‘Mozart/Mozart’ writes Maria Anna Mozart again in,” the creators stated. They accomplish that in a full-throttle plot that kicks off when, already a rockstar, after a very show-stopping efficiency, Mozart is sacked as composer of the Salzburg courtroom.
The Mozarts face monetary wreck except Maria Anna marries a person 20 years her senior. As an alternative, the 2 fled to Vienna to come back for a gig as a conductor on the Emperor Joseph II’s courtroom. However then Amadeus injures his hand, and succumbs to a close to insanity. To avoid wasting the household’s funds, Maria Anna steps up and with Amadeus’ assist, pretends to be him – underneath these colourful wigs and loopy costumes, no person can inform the distinction.
Maria Anna conducts to wild acclaim, and finds success and freedom as “Mozart,” whereas Amadeus crashes and burns, confined to a clinic. To complicate issues, Maria Anna additionally falls in love with Antonio Salieri, Mozart’s rival.
Andreas Gutzeit, Swantje Oppermann, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim
Credit: Ingo Böhm/René Fitzek
“Mozart/Mozart” will go into manufacturing in 2025, additionally releasing subsequent yr.
“Mozart is a worldwide model that has been profitable for over 250 years. “Mozart/Mozart” continues this success, by telling a wild drama about a rare musician who was pushed out of the limelight when she was a woman and who reclaims her spot in a most extraordinary manner as a lady,” stated Gutzeit.
The collection is about in Vienna within the 1780s, dominated by an Emperor who was a rare patron of the humanities. Town was the leisure capital of Europe which actually involves life at night time, be it on the unique after exhibits for Vienna’s VIPs or at extreme events, the place complete livelihoods are gambled away, opium is the coke of its time, and intercourse is a commodity that’s traded freely.
A promo reel suggests “Mozart/Mozart” shall be huge, extravagant, flamboyant and wild.
“The aim is to recreate the feelings that folks might need felt after they listened to Mozart’s music at the moment, to let the viewers expertise what was so particular, touching and so new about this music and to create a particular visible fashion, which requires boldness and a few punkiness,” My-Linh von Arnim instructed Selection.
“On the music stage it can deliver one thing actually new and edgy to the display screen, however it can nonetheless be very talked-about and accessible to trendy audiences.” she added.
“The visible idea could be very trendy and generally poppy, however that can by no means work in opposition to the characters and their feelings. It simply elevates them, brings them and the drama out.”
The costumes and areas of the collection will, thus, be as present stopping and eye-popping as its characters. “In her brother’s showy outfits, Maria Anna will deliver the home down,” Gutzeit promised.
“Mozart/Mozart” will even have a really pronounced upstairs/downstairs ingredient to it and can characterize Vienna’s road musicians as prominently because the virtuosos at courtroom, stated My-Linh von Arnim. “This distinction is entrance and middle to the collection,” she noticed.
The collection points are eminently related at present, they each insisted.
“At its coronary heart, it is a trendy feminine empowerment story, however way more than only a girl discovering her place. Maria Anna has to consider in herself, consider in her expertise, solely then does she come into her personal. That is very relatable to a younger viewers,” stated Gutzeit.
As Maria Anna, disguised, turns into the star of Vienna, Amadeus returns, his psychological well being and habit worsening as he fears he is being changed by his sister.
The collection can also be about “how to achieve success and revered as a lady again in these occasions whereas additionally discovering your house in a relationship which is definitely a timeless battle, My-Linh von Arnim famous.
The Mozarts will uncover, nevertheless, collectively they’re much better than working aside.
Theirs will not be the one sibling relationship within the collection, nevertheless.
From 1780, Joseph II, thought to be considered one of Europe’s best monarchs, put into apply the concepts of the Enlightenment, corresponding to peasant’s proudly owning small landholdings, which made him extra progressive than many European governments at present.
Through his sister Marie Antoinette, married to the French king, he engaged in a philosophical battle between the Austrian and French monarchies as to how Europe is dominated. Exhausting partying Marie Antoinette’s privileged existence in Austria is certainly threatened by her brother’s political agenda. She torpedoes her brother’s reforms.
Made for mass audiences, however particularly youthful viewers, “Mozart/Mozart” is about “household, and sibling love, and about expertise and future, transgression and oppression, energy and abuse, hate and love, and naturally music… plenty of music Gutzeit stated.
