‘Mozart/Mozart’, the latest big series from Germany’s Story House Pictures, the company behind the Beta Film/RTL blockbuster ‘Sisi’, signals the arrival of one of Europe’s biggest packages at Mipcom on Monday. Germany’s ARD and Austrian film companies participated. Corresponding ORF for public broadcasting.
In further news, Clara Zoe My-Lin von Arnim, co-director of this year’s Cannes Best Series and winner of the German Television Award, The Zweifler, will be directing the series. It was decided.
Based on one of Europe’s largest IPs and backed by ARD, currently Europe’s largest public broadcaster, “Mozart/Mozart” is a film by the co-founder of Story House Pictures, the international studio of the Bavarian Film Group. It was created by producer Andreas Guzeit. Swantje Opperman, showrunner on “Shishi,” staff writer on “Dignity,” and development executive at Storyhouse;
Bavaria Media International will market the six-part show at Mipcom.
“Mozart/Mozart” is a part inspired by historical facts. Maria Anna Mozart was hailed as a child prodigy. She received the highest pay when she performed with her brother Wolfgang Amadeus. When she reached marriageable age and was forced to stop performing in public, she continued to compose, but her music was lost and was never performed in public.
“Too often women have been erased from history, but ‘Mozart/Mozart’ reimagines Maria Anna Mozart,” the creators said. They do it with a full-throttle plot, starting with Mozart, already a rock star, being dismissed from his position as Salzburg court composer after a particularly high-profile performance.
Unless Maria Anna marries a man 20 years her senior, the Mozart family will be financially ruined. Instead, the two flee to Vienna to compete for a concert as conductor at the court of Emperor Joseph II. But then Amadeus injured his hand and almost went insane. To save the family finances, Maria Anna enlists Amadeus’ help and pretends to be Amadeus. Under the colorful wigs and crazy costumes, no one will be able to tell the difference.
Maria Anna receives rave reviews and finds fulfillment and freedom as “Mozart,” but Amadeus crashes, burns himself, and is locked up in an infirmary. To further complicate matters, Maria Anna also falls in love with Antonio Salieri, Mozart’s rival.
Andreas Guzeit, Swantje Oppermann, Clara Zoe Meerin von Arnim
Credit: Ingo Boehm/René Fitzek
“Mozart/Mozart” is scheduled to begin production in 2025 and be released next year.
“Mozart is a global brand that has been successful for over 250 years. Mozart/Mozart is about an extraordinary musician who was exiled from the limelight as a young girl, and who, as a woman, is performing in the most extraordinary way. We’re building on this success by portraying a wild drama about regaining our status,” Gutzeit said.
The series is set in 1780s Vienna, a time ruled by the Emperor, an extraordinary patron of the arts. The city was Europe’s entertainment capital and truly came alive at night, whether it was special after-shows for Viennese VIPs or over-the-top parties. There, all livelihoods were spent gambling, opium was the coke of the day, and sex was entertainment. A freely traded commodity.
According to the promo reel, “Mozart/Mozart” will be big, extravagant, flashy and wild.
“The goal was to recreate the emotions that people might have felt when listening to Mozart’s music at the time, to let the audience experience something special, moving and new about this music, and to create a special visual style. It’s bold and punkish,” said Mirin von Arnim. variety.
“On a musical level, we’re bringing something really new and edgy to the screen, but it’s still going to be very popular and accessible to modern audiences,” she added.
“The visual concept is very modern and pop at times, but it never goes against the characters or their emotions. It just enhances them and brings out the drama with them.”
Therefore, the series’ costumes and locations are as attention-grabbing and eye-popping as the characters. “Maria Anna will dress up in her brother’s fancy costumes and cause chaos in the house,” Guzeit promised.
“Mozart/Mozart” also has a very pronounced upstairs/downstairs element, which will represent Viennese street musicians as prominently as court virtuosos, Milin von Arnim said. “This difference is central and central to this series,” she observed.
Both men argued that the issues in this series are very relevant today.
“At its heart, this is a story of modern female empowerment, but it’s not just a woman finding her place. Maria Anna has to believe in herself and believe in her talent. Only then can she show herself. This is very relatable for young viewers,” Guzeit said.
When the disguised Maria Anna becomes a star in Vienna, Amadeus returns, but his mental state and addiction worsen as he worries that he will be replaced by his sister.
The series is also “about how to be successful and respected as a woman in this day and age, while finding your place in a relationship that is a timeless conflict,” said Mirin von Arnim. he said.
However, the Mozarts will find that working together is much better than working separately.
However, this is not the only sibling relationship in the series.
Considered one of Europe’s greatest monarchs, Joseph II was more progressive than many European governments today, implementing Enlightenment ideas such as farmers owning small plots of land from 1780 onwards. It has become.
Through his sister Marie Antoinette, who was married to the King of France, he waged a philosophical battle between the Austrian and French monarchies over how to govern Europe. A Hard Party Marie Antoinette’s privileged existence in Austria is certainly threatened by her brother’s political intentions. She sabotages her brother’s reforms.
Made for a mass audience, especially a young audience, “Mozart/Mozart” is about “family, brotherhood, talent and fate, sin and oppression, power and abuse, hatred and love, and of course music…a lot of music.” ” is about. ” Gazzeit said.
