Starring Hilde Krahl, Mathias Wieman, Friedrich KayBler

Director: Harald Braun
Print: Black and White
Runtime: 110 Minutes
Genre: Drama, Musical
Language: German
Subtitle: English

Clara Wieck meets the talented Robert Schumann in her father’s Leipzig music school. And entirely against her father’s wishes, who thinks only of her future artistic career, she falls in love with Robert. The final break comes after a successful tour as a pianist at the side of Franz Liszt. She returns to Leipzig shortly thereafter and marries Schumann. She’s happy and lives only for her family. Her husband writes his best pieces during this time, too. After a lot of pressure, Liszt is able to convince Clara to go on a new concert tour. The happy couple leaves on their musical journey. But the life of a wandering artist doesn’t suit Robert Schumann, who is ill: for the longest time, he’s suffered from severe depression. His condition becomes ever more hopeless. He’s lost the will to live and he sinks into a deep melancholy. When Clara visits him in the sanatorium shortly before his death, a mentally deranged Schumann doesn’t even recognize her anymore.