After the world premiere in TORONTO (Platform competition), Barbara Albert’s 5^th feature film will head to SAN SEBASTIÁN as a contender of the Golden Shell competition. MADEMOISELLE PARADIS takes us to Rococo Vienna and the remarkably talented blind pianist Maria Theresia Paradis who is torn between her extraordinary musical talent and her desire to to live the life of an ordinary young woman within the rules of a rigid society.
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MADEMOISELLE PARADIS takes us to Rococo Vienna and the remarkably talented blind pianist Maria Theresia Paradis, who is torn between her extraordinary musical talent and her desire to live the life of an ordinary young woman within the rules of a rigid society.

"An exquisitely crafted period drama", that's what  Allan Hunter of Screen Daily wrote on Barbara Albert's new feature film MADEMOISELLE PARADIS. Right after its world premiere at the Toronto Platform competiton the film joins the Golden Shell competition at San Sébastián, celebrating also its European premiere.

Barbara Albert's 5^th feature film MADEMOISELLE PARADIS celebrated its first encounter with the European audience at the San Sebastián festival and enchanted not only Variety critic Guy Lodge.

Barbara Albert's sensitive portrait of the remarquably talented blind pianist Maria Theresia Paradis, set in Rococo Vienna under the reign of Maria Theresia, garners the main prize at the Filmkunstfest Sachsen Anhalt.

The European Film Academy has released a list of 49 films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2018. On top of MADEMOISELLE PARADIS by Barbara Albert, the selection comprises also two Austrian co-productions – STYX by Wolfgang Fischer and 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON.