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Kinshasa Symphony / a film by Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer ; [presented by] Sounding Images ; in koproduktion mit WDR und RBB ; script, Claus Wischmann.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste.
- Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)--Social conditions.
- Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (95 min.)
- Contained In:
- Kinshasa Symphony
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : C Major Entertainment, 2010.
- Language Note:
- Mostly in French, with English subtitles.
- Summary:
- Two hundred orchestral musicians are playing Beethoven's Ninth -- 'Freude schoner Gotterfunken'. A power cut strikes just a few bars before the last movement. Problems like this are the least of the worries facing the only symphony orchestra in the Congo. In the 15 years of its existence, the musicians have survived two putsches, various crises and a war. But concentration on the music and hopes for a better future keeps them going. Kinshasa Symphony is a study of people in one of the world's most chaotic cities doing their best to maintain one of the most complex systems of joint human endeavour: a symphony orchestra. The film is about the Congo, the people in Kinshasa and the power of music. 'A superb and affecting documentary about some highly unusual musicians, the staggering challenges they face in their everyday lives, the amazing city they live in and the power of Beethoven's Ninth.
- Participant:
- Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste ; Diangienda Wabasolele Armand, conductor.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 21, 2014).
- Best Documentary and Audience Award, Bolzano Cinema 2011; Gold World Medal, New York Festival 2011; Most Popular Nonfiction Film Award, Vancouver International Film Festival 2010; Best Documentary, International Film Festival, New York City
- OCLC:
- 877884220
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