Signaling one of the biggest European packages to arrive at Mipcom on Monday, “Mozart/Mozart”, the latest big hit from the German series Story Home Footage, behind the mega-hit Beta Movie/RTL “Sisi”, was approached by the German ARD and its Austrian counterpart public broadcaster ORF.
Additionally, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim, co-director of “The Zweiflers”, this year’s Canneseries best series and winner of the German TV Awards, is set to direct the series.
Based primarily on one of Europe’s biggest IPs and now supported by ARD, Europe’s largest public broadcaster, “Mozart/Mozart” was created by Andreas Gutzeit – co-founder of Story Home Footage, the global studio of the Bavaria Movie Group, and producer and “Sisi” showrunner – and Swantje Oppermann, “Dignity” writer and story development executive.
Bavaria Media Worldwide will bring the six-part program to market on Mipcom.
“Mozart/Mozart” is an element impressed by historical reality. Maria Anna Mozart was hailed as a child prodigy. When performing with his little brother Wolfgang Amadeus, he achieved high sales. Even when forced to stop performing in public when she reached marriageable age, she continued to compose, but her music was lost and never performed in public.
“Women have often been written out of history, ‘Mozart/Mozart’ writes Maria Anna Mozart back,” the creators said. They achieve this in a full-throttle plot that begins when, already a rock star, after a show-stopping performance, Mozart is fired from his position as composer at the Salzburg court.
The Mozarts face a financial crisis unless Maria Anna marries a man 20 years her senior. Instead, the two flee to Vienna to compete for a place as conductor at the court of Emperor Joseph II. However, Amadeus injures his hand and succumbs to near insanity. To save the family money, Maria Anna steps forward and, with Amadeus’ help, pretends to be him – beneath those colorful wigs and crazy costumes, no one can tell the difference.
Maria Anna conducts to great acclaim and finds success and freedom as “Mozart”, while Amadeus suffers accidents and burns, confined to a clinic. To complicate things, Maria Anna also falls in love with Antonio Salieri, Mozart’s rival.
“Mozart/Mozart” will go into production in 2025, and will also be released next year.
“Mozart is a global model that has been profitable for more than 250 years. ‘Mozart/Mozart’ continues this success, telling a wild drama about a rare musician who was pushed out of the spotlight as a lady and who regains her place in an extraordinary way as a lady,” said Gutzeit.
The collection was built in Vienna in the 1780s, dominated by an emperor who was a rare patron of the humanities. The city was the leisure capital of Europe, which really encompasses life at night, be it the exclusive exhibitions for Vienna’s VIPs or extreme events where all means of subsistence are thrown away, opium is the cocaine of your time and sex is a commodity that is freely traded.
A promotional reel suggests that “Mozart/Mozart” will be huge, extravagant, extravagant and wild.
“The aim is to recreate the feelings that people may have felt when they heard Mozart’s music at that moment, to allow the audience to experience what is so special, moving and so new about this music, and to create a special visual style, which it requires boldness and a bit of punk”, advised My-Linh von Arnim Selection.
“On a musical level, he will bring something really new and bold to the screen, but will still be highly popular and accessible to modern audiences.” she added.
“The visual concept can be very modern and sometimes pop, but it will never work against the characters and their emotions. It just lifts them up, brings them and the drama to the surface.”
The costumes and areas of the collection will therefore be as present and striking as the characters. “With her brother’s flashy outfits, Maria Anna will make the house look great,” promised Gutzeit.
“Mozart/Mozart” will also have a very pronounced up/down factor and will signify Vienna’s street musicians as prominently as the court virtuosos, said My-Linh von Arnim. “This distinction is the entry and heart of the collection,” she noted.
The collection points are eminently related at this point, each of them insisted.
“At its core, it’s a modern story of female empowerment, but much more than just a woman discovering her place. Maria Anna has to think about herself, think about her experience, only then can she take action. This is very relatable to younger audiences,” Gutzeit said.
While Maria Anna, in disguise, becomes the star of Vienna, Amadeus returns, his psychological well-being and his dependence worsen, as he fears he is being changed by his sister.
The series will be about “how to achieve success and be revered as a woman on these occasions and at the same time find your home in a relationship that is actually a timeless battle,” noted My-Linh von Arnim.
The Mozarts will discover, however, that together they are better than working apart.
However, their relationship isn’t the only sibling relationship in the series.
From 1780 onwards, Joseph II, considered one of the most interesting monarchs in Europe, put into practice the ideas of the Enlightenment, such as the peasant’s pride in owning small properties, which made him more progressive than many European governments today.
Through his sister Marie Antoinette, married to the French king, he waged a philosophical battle between the Austrian and French monarchies over how Europe was dominated. Hard parties Marie Antoinette’s privileged existence in Austria is certainly threatened by her brother’s political agenda. She torpedoes her brother’s reforms.
Made for the general public, but especially for younger audiences, “Mozart/Mozart” is about “family and brotherly love, and about technology and the future, transgression and oppression, power and abuse, hate and love, and, of course, music… ”, stated Gutzeit.
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