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Directed by Jean-Louis Guillermou
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians
Actors Jean-François Balmer, Michèle Mercier, Elisabeth Duda, Erick Deshors, Christian Vadim, Robin Renucci
L'intrigue joue sur deux périodes spatiotemporelles : en 2011 à Paris, et dans les années 1842-1883 dans l’Europe parcourue par le compositeur : Allemagne, Suisse, Italie. Une jeune femme éprouve un amour exacerbé pour Wagner. Ce personnage décalé est la clé d'entrée dans l’univers wagnérien. Grâce à Judith, des personnages identiques se retrouvent dans les deux périodes.
Kène ya ma kène... (2010)
, 1h25Directed by Hichem Ben Ammar
Origin Tunisie
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
In a popular neighborhood of Tunis, a trombonist dreams that his son, Anès, becomes a great musician. The son makes his father’s dream his own, and develops extraordinary aptitudes with the violin. After winning several international competitions, he is offered the chance to enroll in the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in London. The film shows us Anès' journey, the obstacles he faces on the way, and his evolution while in exile in Europe.
Kinshasa Symphony (2010)
, 1h35Origin German
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the third-largest city in Africa with 10 million inhabitants. The film shows how some people living there have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra (Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste) performing composers such as Handel, Verdi, Beethoven. "Kinshasa Symphony" shows Kinshasa in all its diversity, speed, colour, vitality and energy. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.
Mozart's Sister (2010)
, 2hDirected by René Féret
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Enfant musicien, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau, Clovis Fouin, Dominique Marcas
During the Mozart family grand tour, a cracked carriage axle forces Leopold Mozart, his wife Anna, 14-year-old Nannerl and a rambunctious 11-year-old Wolfgang to seek shelter in the nearby Fontevraud Abbey. There Nannerl develops a friendship with 13-year-old Princess Louise of France, who is being brought up in the Abbey, along with two of her sisters. This leads to an encounter at Versailles with her brother, Louis, Dauphin of France. Nannerl, an accomplished harpsichordist and singer who helps support the family as part of a brother - sister act, yearns to compose music and play violin, but her father, Leopold, forbids it. The young, but recently widowed Dauphin takes an interest in her and her music that edges toward romance. But he breaks off the relationship when he becomes engaged to Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony. Princess Louise enters a convent and urges Nannerl to stay away from the Dauphin who is struggling to avoid the debauchery of his father, King Louis XV. A bizarre final encounter with the Dauphin and his new wife ensues. Nannerl and Princess Louise reflect on how their fates would have differed had they been born male.
Mahler on the Couch (2010)
, 1h38Directed by Percy Adlon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about classical music and musicians
Actors Karl Markovics, Eva Mattes, Lena Stolze
Desert Fugue (2010)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
, 1h58Directed by Jan Kounen
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Animation, Romance
Themes La mode, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Elena Morozova, Natacha Lindinger, Anatole Taubman, Rasha Bukvic
An introductory scene takes place in Paris in 1913, where Coco Chanel attends the first, scandalous performance of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The rhythmic dissonance of the score and the surprising choreography of the piece result in heckling and outrage among much of the audience. But Chanel is impressed by Stravinsky and his music.
The Concert (2009)
, 1h59Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Lionel Abelanski, Mélanie Laurent, Aleksei Guskov, François Berléand, Miou-Miou, Dmitri Nazarov
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra, known as "The Maestro," Andrey Simonovich Filipov, had had his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for defending Jewish musicians and is reduced to working as a mere janitor in the theatre where he once conducted, becoming an alcoholic in the process.
Pianomania (2009)
, 1h33Directed by Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Piano
The collaborative work between Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Stefan Knüpfer is at the centre of the film. Bach's The Art of Fugue is to be recorded. Pierre-Laurent Aimard has decided in favour of concert grand piano Nr. 109 for the Bach recording. The film begins one year before the recording.
SING*ularity (2009)
, 1h36Directed by Brad Mays
Origin USA
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
, 1h51Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Sunnyi Melles, Lena Stolze, Alexander Held
In Vision, New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta (Marianne and Julianne, Rosa Luxemburg and Rosentrasse) tells the story of Hildegard of Bingen (Barbara Sukowa) the famed 12th century Benedictine nun, Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, physician, poet, naturalist, scientist and ecological activist. Hildegard was a multi-talented, fully grounded, highly intelligent woman who was forced to hide her light. The modern world's first female rebel who re-transmitted her visions to the world for the greater glory of God and mankind. Regine Pernoud has called Hildegard “the inspired conscience of the 12th century,” the “Prophetissa Teutonica” and the “Jewel of Bingen.” Pope John Paul II has called her “a light to her people and for her time, she continues to shine even more brightly today.
You Will Be Mine (2009)
, 1h36Directed by Sophie Laloy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films about classical music and musicians, Piano, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Judith Davis, Isild Le Besco, Édith Scob, Matthias Van Khache, Johan Libéreau, Marc Chapiteau
The movie is about the difficult relations between two young girls: a student in the Conservatoire de Musique classique de Lyon and her lesbian medical student roommate.
The Elusive English Organ (2009)
, 50minutesGenres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Ça se soigne ? (2008)
, 1h26Directed by Laurent Chouchan
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians
Actors Thierry Lhermitte, Julie Ferrier, Michel Vuillermoz, Isabelle Gélinas, Stéphane Freiss, François-Xavier Demaison
Tom Bledish, un chef d'orchestre qui a tout pour lui en étant connu et reconnu, riche et ayant épousé Adrienne, une séduisante femme pilote de ligne, fait une dépression nerveuse à la suite d'un banal feu tricolore. Sa femme comme ses amis essayent de l'aider mais la situation pourrait bien se retourner contre eux...
Clara (2008)
, 1h47Directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms
Origin German
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Martina Gedeck, Nikolai Kinski, Pascal Greggory, Malik Zidi, Jacques Breuer, Béla Fesztbaum
After a performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor in Hamburg, where the couple get to know the young composer Johannes Brahms, Clara and Robert Schumann take up residence in their new home in Düsseldorf, where Robert begins his new job as musical director. The demands of composition of his new symphony, the Rhenish Symphony, leads to tension between him and Clara.