The Audition (Das Vorspiel) – German movie at European Film Festival

Join us May 6th through 8th at Plaza Atlanta for three days of vibrant and engaging cinema, showcasing the colorful variety of European on-screen storytelling while exploring the many expressions of European Identity.

As a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian nation under attack, the European Film Festival of Atlanta will be opening with the award-winning Ukrainian documentary The Earth is Blue as an Orange.

Please join us for the opening, and celebrate with us this expression of European unity in difficult times.

Friday, May 6 at 7 pm (reception and speeches, movie begins at 7:30 pm)

The German contribution “Das Vorspiel/The Audition plays on Sunday, May 8 at 2pm.

The Audition (Das Vorspiel)
by Ina Weisse (2019)

Anna Bronsky is a violin teacher at a music-focused high school. Despite the opposition of all the other teachers, Anna drives through the admission of a student, Alexander, in whom she detects a remarkable talent. Committed, she prepares him for the intermediate exam and neglects her family – her son Jonas, whom she brings into competition with her new student, and her husband Philippe. Her colleague Christian, with whom she has an affair, persuades her to join a quintet. When she fails during their joint concert, the pressure mounts and she focuses all her attention on her student Alexander. Come the day of the exam, events take a tragic turn.