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As Wander Lust starts, Tetro appears outside the festival and calls Bennie to him, admitting that he is actually his father and Naomi is his mother, who tried to commit suicide after telling Tetro and Carlo about Bennie's parentage, putting herself in a coma. Wanting to fulfill the play's ending where Tetro kills Carlo, he asks Bennie to kill ...
Jun 17, 2009 · All hell breaks loose with Tetro, inspiring a series of flashbacks involving his father, Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a conductor who carries himself as a grand man. There are, of course, terrible secrets in the family past, known to Tetro but not to Bennie, and they are revealed in a final act worthy of Verdi.
Apr 10, 2012 · The father (Klaus Maria Brandauer, seen in flashback) is a famous musician, as is his brother. This is Coppola’s background, too, and some of the scenes have more than a hint of...
Jun 10, 2009 · Tetro may have renounced his father, but he can’t shake him in spirit or name.
- Francis Ford Coppola
Tetro’s desire to cut ties with his clan—and especially with his father, the illustrious composer Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer)—starts with his first name, which is actually a terse bastardization of his last: Tetrocini.
It’s about fathers and sons, and about the weight of genius. There’s a biographical gesture in which the father at the centre — an absentee figure two brothers have left behind, and suffered under growing up — has a similar profession to Coppola’s own father.
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Jan 5, 2010 · His first original screenplay since 1974’s The Conversation, Tetro is rife with Coppola connections — his father, like Tetro’s father, was a musician overshadowed by a brother — and flies...
