Alma & Oskar, a new German-language biopic about the love affair between Austrian composer Anna Mahler and artist Oskar Kokoschka, is currently filming in Prague. Production on the new movie has been taking place in Prague’s Karlín district and will continue in Holešovice later this week.
Alma & Oskar stars Emily Cox (Brida in The Last Kingdom) as Alma Mahler, wife of famed composer Gustav Mahler but also an acclaimed composer in her own right who was driven away from writing music by her husband. After Gustav Mahler’s death in 1911, Alma had a stormy romance with painter Oskar Kokoschka (played by Valentin Postlmayr).
Some of Kokoschka’s most well-known works, including The Bride of the Wind, were directly inspired by their relationship, which ended when the artist enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army in advance of the first World War.
Filmmaker Dieter Berner (Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden) is behind the camera for Alma & Oskar, which he is directing from a script co-written with Hilde Berger. Jakub Bejnarowicz, who previously shot the Amazon series We Children from Bahnhof Zoo in Prague, serves as cinematographer.
Production on Alma & Oskar began in mid-June in Austria before moving to the Czech Republic. Yesterday (July 20) production took place inside Prague 8’s historic Invalidovna complex, which was originally constructed as a dormitory for war veterans in the 1700s and modeled after Les Invalides in Paris.
Unused since the 2002 floods and still awaiting extensive repairs, the Invalidovna building has been used for numerous film shoots in Prague over the years, perhaps most notably in Miloš Forman’s Amadeus.
Filming on Alma & Oskar is scheduled to run through August, with the production also slated to film on locations in Germany and Switzerland.
Alma & Oskar is scheduled to be released in cinemas in 2022.
Lead photo: Emily Cox and Valentin Postlmayr on the set of Alma & Oskar from Instagram / @emilycoxofficial.
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