Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
Acting
Teo Gheorghiu: actual prodigy playing pretend prodigy. Meta perfection.
Score
Chopin and flight sequences that'll wreck you.
Cinematography
Those gliding first-person flying shots over Switzerland.
Director
Fredi M. Murer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Teo Gheorghiu was discovered at age nine after winning an international piano competition; this was his only film role—he became a concert pianist instead.
The flying sequences reference Swiss aviation history and symbolize the only freedom Vitus finds outside his parents' ambition—his grandfather's world of possibility vs. their world of performance.
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