Directors comments about Teo Gheorghiu: While writing the script, Vitus remained an artificial character like Oscar in the “Tin Drum” by Günther Grass or Alia in “Dune” by Frank Herbert or a kind of mix between Mozart and Einstein. To me, feature films are to a certain extent a documentary about the protagonist. With that in mind, we started our search to find the actor who would play Vitus.

Teo Gheorghiu, plays the twelve-year-old Vitus. Not only does he play the piano like a future maestro, but he also developed a talent for acting in a very short period of time. I found Teo at the Purcell School in London, a school for musically gifted children. Despite having a Canadian passport and being of Romanian origin, Teo was born and raised in Switzerland, and can speak perfect Swiss-German.