The Three Lives Of Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann's biography is legendary: her austere childhood, her extraordinary talent as a pianist, her early love for the composer Robert Schumann, which she asserted against the will of her father, and the upbringing of seven children all provide enough material for myths and clichés. But who really was Clara Schumann? The documentary film The Three Lives Of Clara Schumann approaches her personality from different angles: through her letters and diaries, through her compositions, and through musicians who have intensively studied her – as interpreters of her music, researchers in her biography, and travelers in time.