BRODERNA MOZART (The Mozart Brothers)
by Suzanne Osten, Fiction, 110', 1986, 35mm, SWEDEN
With Etienne Glaser, Philippe Zanden, Henry Bronett

In this film, we are plunged in the staging adventures of Don Giovanni. The performers and musicians are at first stunned, and reluctant to make any modifications but at the same time entirely committed to the emotion that this highly unorthodox opera director, who commiserates directly with the ghost of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, has brought to them. Conflicts will arise between the two parties that will put in danger the final representation.

SUZANNE OSTEN
Suzanne Osten was born in 1944 in Stockholm (Sweden). She became an active participant in student-theater while taking classes in literature and art history at the University of Lund. She soon left the institution become the director of one of Sweden's first free theater groups, Frickteatren. In 1982, she came out with her film debut, Our Life Is Now, that is a tribute to her mother a leading Swedish film critic. Suzanne Osten is often compared with Ariane Mnouchkine, because of the influence that her interest in theater has on her films. She has directed ten feature films on an international audience level. The Mozart Brothers won the 1986 Swedish Film Institute award for best director and the Prix du Public in Créteil (1987).