Junkies of Dreaming (2026): Cast, Story and Release Details

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Junkies of Dreaming follows orchestra rehearsals with Teodor Currentzis alongside reflections on Mahler’s Third Symphony, artistic creation and the legacy of Berlin’s House of the Radio of the GDR. The documentary also includes a young couple in love, bringing an intimate human perspective to its exploration of music and creative experience.

Junkies of Dreaming is a 2026 German documentary directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre. Its subject is the creative process surrounding orchestra rehearsals with Teodor Currentzis and Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony, a work presented as boundary-breaking in its scope and ambition.

The film moves between public artistic practice and more intimate perspectives, including a young couple in love. It asks what prompted Mahler’s composition 130 years ago and considers what the symphony may still awaken in people today.

Junkies of Dreaming movie details

Story without spoilers

The documentary observes rehearsals with conductor and musician Teodor Currentzis at Berlin’s House of the Radio of the GDR. Rather than focusing only on the finished performance, it examines artistic work from both outside and within the rehearsal process.

Mahler’s Third Symphony provides the film’s central point of reference. Alongside the orchestra and Currentzis, Junkies of Dreaming includes Wiebke Lehmkuhl and a young couple, connecting the history of the symphony with questions about how music is created, experienced and understood in the present.

What to expect

Viewers can expect a documentary centered on classical music, rehearsal work and the relationship between historical composition and contemporary response. The film’s material includes orchestra rehearsals, the Berlin setting of the House of the Radio of the GDR, and personal elements involving a young couple in love.

Its focus is less on a conventional fictional plot than on artistic process and Mahler’s Third Symphony. The film is also multilingual, with spoken languages listed as English and Greek.

Cast and creative team

Junkies of Dreaming is directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre. Teodor Currentzis appears as himself, while Wiebke Lehmkuhl is also credited as herself. No writers are listed in the supplied credits.

• Teodor Currentzis as Self
• Wiebke Lehmkuhl as Self

Release and production context

Junkies of Dreaming is a German documentary with a listed release date of October 15, 2026. It has a runtime of 1 hour and 30 minutes and is produced by PARS Media. The listed spoken languages are English and Greek.

Production companies: PARS Media

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With its focus on Mahler’s Third Symphony, Teodor Currentzis’s rehearsals and the experience of artistic creation, Junkies of Dreaming places musical preparation at the center of its documentary approach. Its combination of historical questions, Berlin locations and personal perspectives gives the film a clearly defined subject without relying on a conventional narrative.

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