Director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Double Jeopardy) brings to life the romance and excitement of turn-of-the-century Vienna in Bride of The Wind, the true story of one of the 20th century's most remarkable women, Alma Mahler, lover to Europe's greatest geniuses.
Every generation has its muse. In ancient Greece, there was Helen of Troy. In the Middle Ages, there was the Mona Lisa. And in turn-of-the-century Vienna, there was Alma: a brilliant, sexy young musician who aroused the passions of Europe¹s greatest artists. Alma seduced lover after lover who changed the world yet, it was she who ultimately changed each of them.
In the midst of Vienna's explosive Golden Age of artistic, musical and scientific exploration, the irrepressible Alma Schindler was involved in tumultuous marriages and affairs with some of the 20th Century's most riveting men including the daring composer Gustav Mahler, the expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka, the influential modern architect Walter Gropius and the accomplished novelist Franz Werfel.
Starring as Alma, newcomer Sarah Wynter plays opposite two-time Tony Award-winner Jonathan Pryce, who portrays the perfection-obsessed Gustav Mahler, and Vincent Perez, who in a sensual performance as the fiery artist Kokoschka, portrays a man so in love with Alma he could not control his jealousy.
Bride of The Wind was produced in 2001 and has a running time of 99 minutes. It is a UK/German/Austrian production.