Special programme “It’s a Mad Mad Mad World"  

87-year-old Ann-Mari Fröier strides straight through the kitchen of a fancy café, saying she has 'special permission' when the staff try to stop her. Some might be tempted to call her deranged. But the bi-polar pianist was once Sweden's most promising Mozart interpreter. The film quickly dispels the idea of nuttiness as Ann-Mari Fröier invites viewers into a magical world with anything but madness.

These days, she lives a secluded life in Stockholm. Her stuffy house is filled to the brim with knickknacks - even the grand piano in her living room doubles as a cupboard full of papers and her favorite cookies. Every now and then she plays piano for the dancers at a friend's ballet studio, her fingers as nimble as ever. But now she has a bigger plan: she has rented the small room at Stockholm's concert hall, where she'll take to the stage (playing Mozart, of course) with orchestra accompaniment. She'll have to rehearse again - grumpily, always impatient - and she goes around town putting up posters to fill the 450 seats. Director Marie Lundberg follows the energetic, chain-smoking Fröier in her mission and speaks to her about her struggle with depression and manic episodes, the burden it put on her family and her endless love of music.

Festivals

IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (2012)

Marie Lundberg

Director and producer Marie Lundberg was educated at the School of Journalism in Stockholm and has a Diploma in Social Work. She has a long history of TV and film production, mainly from SVT, Swedish Television. With the ambition to
produce high-quality children's programming, together with Linus Torell she established the production company Svenska Barnprogram in 2006. The company has since established itself as one of the premier companies in its niche and is now producing a wide variety of titles, mainly children's programs on TV.

Filmography

Olivia in the middle (2005)
Double Life (2007)
Currage (2007)