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Otto Lechner – Der Musikant

FromBernhard Pötscher

WithOtto Lechner, Anne Bennent, Klaus Trabitsch, Peter Rosmanith, Max Nagl, Karl Ritter u.a.

Year2025

Duration100min.

LanguageGerman

24 February 2025, world premiere (18:00 + 20:15) with director Bernhard Pötscher, Otto Lechner and other protagonists of the film as guests (both screenings) at the Filmcasino

In co-operation with the Accordion Festival

Musical elementary events and their creator: OTTO LECHNER - DER MUSIKANT is a film in which you can get to know the man - not just the musician - Otto Lechner. A cinematic experience with great concert footage, very personal conversations and the wonderful humour of the Austrian accordion genius.

Between the recitation of a story by Franz Kafka accompanied by the accordion and the ‘Dark Side of the Accordion’, his personal homage to Pink Floyd: what Otto Lechner elicits from his accordion is primal musical power. In Bernhard Pötscher's documentary film OTTO LECHNER - THE MUSICIAN, we encounter such elemental events and the man who created them.

The accordion, which he plays with unrivalled mastery, is by no means Otto Lechner's only means of musical expression. Nor can this veteran musician be categorised into just one musical genre. All of this can be experienced in Pötscher's film: The musical spectrum ranges from the Karel Gott hit ‘Fang das Licht’, which Otto Lechner sings with his partner Anne Bennent, to the symphonic poem ‘Gracchus’, which he composed as a commissioned work for the Bruckner Year 2024. In between jazz, world music and Austrian songwriting, where Otto Lechner is just as much at home as in language, to which he lends musical expression in his own way. OTTO LECHNER - DER MUSIKANT shows him as he lives and breathes: in France, together with accordionist Arnaud Méthivier, he succeeds in creating a congenial communication of sounds. He is no less successful when he sings about a trip on a Dr Richard bus to southern Burgenland: ‘Vierz'g Leit im Nebel, und nix ist passiert ...’.