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Biopics are never easy. The historical record can be unreliable or can yield conflicting information. Groups with vested interests may pressure a filmmaker. But writer-director Rene Feret faced a different hurdle when making the French-language feature "Mozart's Sister," now showing in the Dipson Amherst theater (3500 Main St.).
His challenge was to create a compelling movie about a woman whose legacy did not survive her. That woman was Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, better known as Nannerl, the beloved elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a talented musician in her own right.See the full content of this document
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Director Intrigued by Story of 'Mozart's Sister'
Nannerl, a child of the 18th century who lived well into the 19th, was a prisoner of her time and her sex. Women of her era did not have careers playing the harpsichord -...
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