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German Film Festival 2018: Mademoiselle Paradis
Mademoiselle Paradis (© Christian Schulz / NGF / LOOKS)
Film
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Vienna, 1777. The blind 18-year-old “Wunderkind” pianist Maria Theresia Paradis lost her eyesight overnight when she was three years old.
After countless failed medical experiments, her parents take her to the estate of controversial “miracle doctor” Franz Anton Mesmer, where she joins a group of outlandish patients. She enjoys the liberal household in a Rococo world and tastes freedom for the first time, but begins to notice that as Mesmer’s treatment brings back her eyesight, she is losing her cherished musical virtuosity.
The German Film Festival 2018 is a fine selection of internationally acclaimed films from Germany, Switzerland and Austria in German with English subtitles. Courtesy of the Goethe-Institut.
Screened in partnership with the Embassy of Austria Canberra
Duration: 97 mins
Rating: TBC
Related reading: Film, Free event, German Film Festival
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