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WOLFGANG

STATUS: Completed

WOLFGANG

  • 2026
  • Iran
  • Fiction
  • English, German, French, Persian
  • 98 mins
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In this acid trip opera, the life of 22-year-old Mozart is reimagined to tell the present-day story of an Iranian artist exiled in Paris. Navigating grief, destructive tendencies and creative expression, the artists’ lives swirl together in a time and gender-queering ode to self-transformation. In 1778, a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in exile in Paris: reeling from his mother’s death, he spent his days writing scatalogical music and drowning in libertine excess. In this genre-defying ‘audiovisual opera’, Mozart’s life becomes a portal into that of Wolfgang, an Iranian artist navigating similar extremes as he too is exiled in Paris: the city where everyone says his dreams will come true, and praises him for escaping the censorship of his homeland.

Credits

Director
Saleh Kashefi (Filmsaaz)
Writer
Saleh Kashefi (Filmsaaz)
Producer
Saleh Kashefi, Thomas Jacquey, Leopold Helbich Frey

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