Overview

Lake Lucerne in 1868: a passionate and forbidden affair flares up between the gifted composer Richard Wagner and the much younger Cosima von Bülow - the aristocrat is already married and the mother of four children. Contrary to all conventions, the two publicly confess their love - and break a social taboo in the process.

Cast

Otto Sander

Richard Wagner

Tatja Seibt

Cosima Wagner

Christoph Waltz

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fabienne Babe

Judith Mendes

Anton Diffring

Franz Listz

Beate Finckh

Elisabeth Nietzsche

Rudolf Wessely

Schnappauf