Bride of the Wind

2001 film by Bruce Beresford

Margit Bimler
Gerald Green
Frank Hübner
Evzen Kolar
Lawrence Levy

Starring

Sarah Wynter
Jonathan Pryce
Vincent Perez
Simon Verhoeven

CinematographyPeter JamesEdited byTimothy WellburnMusic byStephen EndelmanDistributed byParamount Classics

Release date

8 June 2001 (2001-06-08) (US)

Running time

99 minutesCountries

United Kingdom
Germany
Austria

LanguageEnglishBox office$419,414

Bride of the Wind is a 2001 period drama directed by Academy Award–nominee Bruce Beresford and written by first-time screenwriter Marilyn Levy. Loosely based on the life of Alma Mahler, Bride of the Wind recounts Alma's marriage to the composer Gustav Mahler and her romantic liaisons. The title of the film alludes to a painting by Oskar Kokoschka named Die Windsbraut, literally meaning The Bride of the Wind, though often translated as The Tempest. The artist dedicated this painting to Alma Mahler.

The film received negative reviews from critics and did poorly at the box office.

Poster art

The film poster artwork depicts Alma reclining on a chaise longue attended by a lover, with a field of flowers in the background. Alma's dress, her hair, the chaise, the field of flowers and even the air are replete with many of the stylistic elements of paintings by Gustav Klimt.

Cast

Sarah Wynter as Alma Mahler
Jonathan Pryce as Gustav Mahler
Vincent Perez as Oskar Kokoschka
Simon Verhoeven as Walter Gropius
Gregor Seberg as Franz Werfel
Dagmar Schwarz as Anna Sofie Schindler-Moll
Wolfgang Hübsch as Carl Moll
August Schmölzer as Gustav Klimt
Johannes Silberschneider as Alexander von Zemlinsky
Hans Steunzer as Richard Strauss
Robert Herzl as Arnold Schoenberg

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 11% based on reviews from 64 critics.^[1] On Metacritic the film has a score of 35% based on reviews from 26 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".^[2]

References

^ "Bride of the Wind (2001)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
^ "Bride of the Wind". Metacritic. Retrieved 5 April 2020.

External links

Bride of the Wind at IMDb
Bride of the Wind at AllMovie

Films directed by Bruce Beresford

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
Side by Side (1975)
Don's Party (1976)
The Getting of Wisdom (1978)
Money Movers (1978)
Breaker Morant (1980)
The Club (1980)
Puberty Blues (1981)
Tender Mercies (1983)
King David (1985)
The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Aria (1987)
Her Alibi (1989)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Mister Johnson (1990)
Black Robe (1991)
Rich in Love (1992)
A Good Man in Africa (1994)
Silent Fall (1994)
Last Dance (1996)
Paradise Road (1997)
Sydney – A Story of a City (1999)
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Bride of the Wind (2001)
Evelyn (2002)
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003 TV film)
The Contract (2006)
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
Bonnie & Clyde (2013 miniseries)
Mr. Church (2016)
Flint (2017 TV film)
Ladies in Black (2018)

v t e Gustav Mahler
List of compositions
Orchestral music	No. 1 (Titan) No. 2 (Resurrection) No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 (Tragic) No. 7 No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand) Das Lied von der Erde No. 9 No. 10 (unfinished)
Chamber music	Piano Quartet
Vocal music	Das klagende Lied Lieder und Gesänge Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Des Knaben Wunderhorn Rückert-Lieder Kindertotenlieder
Named for Mahler	Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Mahler (crater) Mahler Chamber Orchestra Mahler Spur Médiathèque Musicale Mahler
Cultural depictions	Mahler (1974 film) Bride of the Wind (2001 film) Mahler on the Couch (2010 film)
Family	Alma Mahler (wife) Anna Mahler (daughter) Arthur Mahler (cousin) Fritz Mahler (father's cousin) Otto Mahler (brother)
Scholars	Kurt Blaukopf Jonathan Carr Deryck Cooke Henry-Louis de La Grange Donald Mitchell Erwin Ratz Paul Stefan
Related articles	Alma Problem Bernstein–Mahler cycle Colorado MahlerFest Composing hut of Gustav Mahler (Attersee) Composing hut of Gustav Mahler (Wörthersee) Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition Gustav Mahler's orchestration of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 Neo-romanticism Repertory of the Vienna Court Opera under Gustav Mahler Song of the Earth (ballet)
Category

Gustav Klimt

Paintings

Works

List of paintings
Schubert at the Piano (1899)
Beethoven Frieze (1901)
Judith and the Head of Holofernes (1901)
Insel im Attersee (1901-2)
Birnbaum (1903)
Hope I (1903)
The Three Ages of Woman (1905)
Danaë (1907)
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907)
Water Serpents II (1907)
Hope II (1907–08)
The Kiss (1908)
Schloss by the Water (1908)
The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze (1909)
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912)
The Maiden (1913)
Death and Life (1915)
Portrait of a Lady (1916–17)
Women Friends (1916-1917)
Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917)
Portrait of Johanna Staude (1917–18)
Lady with a Fan (1917–18)

Series

Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings (1900–1907)
Stoclet Frieze (1905–1911)

Museums

Klimt Villa

Family and relationships

Bride of the Wind (2001 film)
Klimt (2006 film)
Stealing Klimt (2007 documentary)
Woman in Gold (2015 film)

v t e Walter Gropius
Buildings and structures	Fagus Factory (1911-1913) (with Adolf Meyer) Bauhaus Dessau (1925-1926) Kurt Weill Centre (1925-1926) Monument to the March Dead (1922, destroyed, 1936; reconstructed, 1947) (with Fred Forbát) 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea (1935-1936) (with Maxwell Fry) Gropius House (1938) Josephine M. Hagerty House (1938) Impington Village College (1938-1939) (with Maxwell Fry) Waldenmark (with Marcel Breuer) The Alan I W Frank House (1939-1940) (with Marcel Breuer) Aluminum City Terrace (completion, 1942) (with Marcel Breuer) Walter-Gropius-Haus (Berlin) (1957) (with The Architects Collaborative and Wils Ebert) Michael Reese Hospital (original plan for 8 buildings, 1946-1959; demolished 2009-2013) University of Baghdad (1957-1960) Gropiusstadt (buildings complex, completion, 1960) Embassy of the United States, Athens (1960-1961) MetLife Building (1959-1963) (with Richard Roth and Pietro Belluschi) John F. Kennedy Federal Building (1963-1966) (with The Architects Collaborative and Samuel Glaser) Tower East (completion, 1969) Huntington Museum of Art (enlargement project, 1968-1970, with The Architects Collaborative) Porto Carras (original project, 1973-1980)
Other buildings (supporting work)	Großsiedlung Siemensstadt (1929-1931) (co-authorship with six architects) Peter Thacher Junior High School (main authorship by The Architects Collaborative) Wayland High School (1959-1960) (main authorship by Herbert Gallagher and John "Chip" Harkness) Temple Oheb Shalom (Baltimore, Maryland) (completion, 1960) (consulting architect to Sheldon I. Leavitt)
Related	Bauhaus Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau The Back Bay Center (unrealised project, 1953) International Style Werkbund Exhibition (1914) The Architects Collaborative (co-founder) Bride of the Wind (2001 film)
Family and relationships	Martin Gropius (oncle) Alma Mahler (first wife) Manon Gropius (daughter) Ati Gropius Johansen (stepdaughter) Adolf Meyer (collaborator) Maxwell Fry (collaborator) Marcel Breuer (collaborator)