Directed by Michał Kwieciński, with a script by Bartosz Janiszewski, the film will focus on the last years of the Romantic composer’s life.
Variety magazine quotes Wilson as saying that the script “gives an accurate and touching” vision of Chopin’s final years in Paris, where he died in 1849.
Wilson told Variety: “I’ve always adored Chopin. I live with his music and the music of Liszt, and I’ve always been fascinated by the Romantic era in Europe. Particularly in France, with this connection between writers and musicians [revolving] around the character of George Sand.”
The eponymous hero is played by Eryk Kulm, 34, who Kwieciński says “was born to play Chopin; apart from resembling Chopin physically, he has musical training.”
Eryk Kulm and Michał Kwieciński. Photo: FOTON/PAP
Kwieciński told Variety: “What they have in common, above all, is this hypersensitivity to the reality that surrounds them. Apparently, it was said that if Chopin wasn’t a composer, he would have been an actor instead.”
Location shooting for Chopin, Chopin started earlier this month in Poland. The film will also be shot in France and Majorca, where Chopin spent several months together with George Sand and where he composed his cycle of 24 Preludes.
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Source: Variety, PAP