← back
Story
Vienna, 1777. Despite having lost her sight at an early age, 18-year old Maria Theresia »Resi« Paradis (Maria Dragus) is celebrated in Viennese society as a musical wunderkind. After numerous unsuccessful treatments, she comes into the care of Doctor Franz Anton Mesmer (Devid Striesow) a controversial figure due to his new methods. At the Mesmer house, between Rococo and Enlightenment, among a collection of odd patients and with the help of the maid Agnes, Resi feels free at last. When she begins to see things for the first time, she discovers to her horror that she seems to be simultaneously losing her musical virtuosity. Licht is a dense historical drama based on Alissa Walser’s novel Am Anfang war die Nacht Musik.
Director
BARBARA ALBERT (*1970) is one of Austria's best known female directors and won numerous prizes for her films Nordrand [Northern Skirts] (1999), Böse Zellen [Free Radicals] (2003), Fallen [Falling] (2006) and Die Lebenden [The Dead and the Living] (2012).Trailer
Info
Licht
Fiction Feature
German
Freihafen | FF2017
Germany, Austria
2017
97 min
OV with English subtitles
Barbara Albert
Kathrin Resetarits (nach dem Roman "Am Anfang war die Nacht Musik" von Alissa Walser)
Maria Dragus, Devid Striesow, Lukas Miko, Katja Kolm, Maresi Riegner
Michael Kitzberger, Martina Haubrich, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser, Gunnar Dedio
Christine A. Maier
Niki Mossböck
Lorenz Dangel
Katharina Wöppermann
Heinrich Mis (ORF Film/Fernsehabkommen), Holger Stern (ZDF / ARTE)
farbfilm verleih
Films Distribution
NGF – Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion; LOOKS Filmproduktion
LOOKS Film & TV Produktionen GmbH: info@looksfilm.tv
↓
