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One night, a newborn baby is rescued from a storm. Elias and his wife take him in, call him Jon, and raise him as their own. As a young man, he meets Iro, a guard at the prison where he is incarcerated after a tragic fatal accident. She seems to seek him out, takes care of him, and records music for him. But Jon’s eyesight is beginning to fail… Despite his gradual blindness, he will live his life more fully than ever.
Music by Angela Schanelec finally gives us a chance to discover the work of this leading figure of the German ‘new New Wave’. Loosely inspired by the myth of Oedipus, the film takes us from the mountains and beaches of Greece to the lakes of Berlin, and from the 1980s to the present day. Music won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2023 Berlinale.
Born in 1962, writer-director Angela Schanelec first worked as a theatre actress before moving into film. Her films have won numerous awards, including the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2019 Berlinale for I Was at Home, but.