8 Movie Clips and a Trailer for VITUS
6/26/2007
Posted by Frosty
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Opening in limited release on Friday is “Vitus” and it’s the story of a 12 year old boy who is a piano prodigy. And while many people pretend to be a prodigy in the movies, the kicker of this film is the actor playing the role is a real life piano prodigy who learned how to act to play the role.
I saw the film a few weeks ago and really dug it. Unlike the Fox Searchlight movie “Joshua,” which portrayed a very smart kid with very bad intentions, "Vitus" is a similar story except told from the side of someone who is good.
So to get you interested I’ve been provided with a bunch of clips from the movie and they’re all below along with the synopsis and trailer.
Finally, before getting to the clips, I recently participated in a small roundtable interview with Fredi M. Murer - the writer/director - and you can listen to it by clicking here. It’s an MP3 and easily placed on an iPod or a portable player. During the interview he explains how the movie came together and what was his influence for the character.
VITUS a Sony Pictures Classics film, written-directed by Fredi Murer’s, is a moving and humorous coming of age story of a young piano prodigy played by extraordinary 12 year-old real-life virtuoso Teo Gheorghiu. Switzerland’s official entry for the 2006 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award and the winner of the AFI Audience Award for Best Feature, VITUS co-stars Bruno Ganz and will be released on June 29th in New York and Los Angeles with a national release to follow.
By the age of 12, Vitus (played by real-life prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) is a highly gifted musician whose parents have high hopes for him in a career as a classical pianist. The daily pressure of hours of musical practice, his over-protective but well-meaning mother (Julika Jenkins) and his father’s (Urs Jucker) precarious financial situation lead the boy to seek refuge at his eccentric grandfather’s (Bruno Ganz) house.
Vitus and his grandfather’s shared love of flying, mischief and adventure offers Vitus an opportunity at a normal childhood, something the burden of his talent had previously prevented him from. When Vitus employs a ruse pretending he’s been robbed of his talent, his future as a piano virtuoso falls at risk.
One of the most renowned directors in his native Switzerland, writer-director Fredi Murer has an acclaimed forty-year body of work, which includes Locarno International Film Festival Golden Leopard winner HOHENFEUER (ALPINE FIRE), VOLLMOND & DOWNTOWN SWITZERLAND.
Veteran actor Bruno Ganz is one of Europe’s most prolific and internationally distinguished stars. Best known to American audiences for his portrayal of Hitler in THE DOWNFALL: HITLER AND THE END OF THE REICH, Ganz starred in Jonathan Demme’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and Fernando Girasoli’s BREAD AND TULIPS. Ganz will next be seen in Francis Ford Coppola’s YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH.
Opens June 29th. Rated PG. 123 minutes. In German (Swiss) with English Subtitles.
"Vitus" Trailer
Want to be Normal
The Prodigal Son
The Bat Ear
The Babysitter
Insider Trading
I Flew
Dinner Party
Arrogant Behavior
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