A director loses his mind to Wagner and somehow makes it beautiful.
The documentary draws a portrait of an opera director who is staging Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre. He is torn between the tragicomic routine of an opera house and his own perception of Wagner and the Ring cycle. The film witnesses the director’s drama in maintaining the fragile link between a well-constructed performance and his own vision that lies within the music and the narrative, and is seen as German expressionism-like nightmares.
Direction
Sīmanis captures creative obsession like psychological horror.
Production
Nightmare imagery that earns its German expressionism comparison.
Director
Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Staging Wagner in post-Soviet Latvia carries loaded history—German cultural dominance meets Baltic identity.
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