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tence keeping house for Mahler and their
two children. She suffers a nervous break-
down after a daughter's death and goes
off to the spa where she meets Gropius.
So begins an underdeveloped suc-
cession of liaisons, including a volatile
relationship with Kokoschka (Vincent
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Alma (1879-1964) was best known
for her series of relationships with the
artistic stars of her era: Jewish-born
modernist composer Gustav Mahler,
architect Walter Gropius, painter
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Franz Werfel, with whom she fled the
Nazis for America.
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Alma. Instead of being the
Wynter as Alma Mahler in "Bride of the Wind"
intriguing muse, she comes
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and only moderately intelligent —
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acknowledgement in the film. Mahler,
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n't live up to the compelling personal
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altogether. Alma's mother — an actress
tedly intriguing life.
who gave up the theater when she mar-
ried Alma's father — advises her that she
Bride of the Wind, rated R,
will easily find another lover, but nothing
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