Screenings are free but booking is mandatory
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Germany 2020
Director: Christian Berger
Length: 90 min.
Co-production partner: Deutsche Welle, ZDF/ARTE
Funding: BKM, Media Creative Europe
No other work in symphonic literature has received such wide and enthusiastic response. To this day, the most frequently performed work continues to move people all over the world.
The premiere on May 7, 1824 was a great success. To the surprise of the audience, Beethoven had used a choir, a groundbreaking innovation never seen before at a symphony concert.
The film follows the traces of the Ninth on four continents and looks at current interpretations. Filmmaker Christian Berger meets people whose lives are closely linked to Beethoven. “We were shooting in eight countries on four continents. Our protagonists spoke ten different languages, yet Beethoven was always sung in German. That was a big challenge,” says the director. The protagonists of the seven film stories include Greek star conductor Teodor Currentzis, Chinese composer and Oscar winner Tan Dun, the Congolese “Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste” and Paul Whittaker (OBE) and his work with hearing-impaired children with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO).
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