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Hirak Rajar Deshe (1980)
, 1h58Directed by Satyajit Ray
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Superhero films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Tapen Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Utpal Dutt, Soumitra Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta
The magically musical duo of Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne make a comeback in this sequel, where they are invited to the court of the Hirak Raja (The Diamond King), for their musical skills. They are to perform at the kingdom's Jubilee Celebrations.
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969)
, 2h12Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Musical
Themes Monde imaginaire, Films about music and musicians, Superhero films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Tapen Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Santosh Dutta, Jahar Ray, Chinmoy Roy
Le chanteur Goopy et le percussionniste Bagha, tous deux chassés de leurs villages respectifs à cause de leurs horribles prestations, font connaissance dans la forêt. Là, ils rencontrent le roi des fantômes, qui content d'eux leur accorde trois vœux. Pour les rendre effectifs, ils doivent en même temps prononcer leur souhait et se frapper la main mutuellement. Munis du pouvoir d'obtenir de la nourriture par magie, de chaussures qui les emmènent instantanément là où ils veulent et surtout d'une merveilleuse habileté au chant et aux percussions, nos deux héros entament un périple fantastique qui les mène à la Cour d'un roi dont ils gagnent les faveurs en remportant un tournoi musical. Ils parviendront à empêcher le déclenchement d'une guerre imminente entre les États voisins de Shundi et Halla, pourtant dirigés par deux frères, mais dont l'un est sous l'influence néfaste d'un magicien qui a du reste également ensorcelé toute la population en la rendant muette. De fil en aiguille, grâce à leur habileté, les deux héros vont combattre les forces du mal et rétablir l'harmonie entre les frères et les royaumes, obtenant même de chacun la main d'une princesse.
, 3h44Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Cricket films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Suhasini Mulay, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
In the small village of Champaner, (in the State of Gujarat, in western India) during the height of the British Empire in India in 1893, Captain Andrew Russell (Paul Blackthorne), the commanding officer of the Champaner cantonment, has imposed high taxes ("lagaan") on people from the local villages which they are unable to pay due to a prolonged drought. Led by Bhuvan (Aamir Khan), the villagers beg Raja Puran Singh (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) to help them. He tells them that much to his regret, he is also bound by British law.
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
, 2h50Directed by Chen Kaige
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, Transgender in film, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Jiang Wenli
Farewell My Concubine spans 53 years, presenting the lives of two men against the historical backdrop of a country in upheaval. It is about the story of Dieyi and Xiaolou and how their lives are affected by the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s and the victory of the Communists in 1949.
Latcho Drom (1993)
, 1h43Directed by Tony Gatlif
Origin France
Genres Drama, Documentary, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, La culture tzigane, Musiques du monde, Musical films
The film contains very little dialogue and captions; only what is required to grasp the essential meaning of a song or conversation is translated. The film begins in the Thar Desert in Northern India and ends in Spain, passing through Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain. All of the Romani portrayed are actual members of the Romani community.
The Mahabharata (1989)
Directed by Peter Brook
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Films about religion, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Mythologie hindoue
Actors Andrzej Seweryn, Georges Corraface, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Bruce Myers, Mallika Sarabhai, Yoshi Oida
In general terms, the story involves epic incidents between two warring families, the Pandavas (representing the good side) and the Kauravas (representing the bad side). Both sides, being the offspring of kings and gods, fight for dominion. They have both been advised by the god Krishna to live in harmony and abstain from the bloody lust for power. Yet their fights come to threaten the very order of the Universe. The plot is framed by a dialogue between the Brahmin sage Vyasa and the Hindu deity Ganesha, and directed towards an unnamed Indian boy who comes to him inquiring about the story of the human race.
Hero (2002)
, 1h39Directed by Zhang Yimou
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Historical, Martial arts
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Martial arts films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Wuxia films
Actors Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen, James Hong
In ancient China during the Warring States period, the nameless prefect of a small jurisdiction arrives at the Qin state's capital city to meet the king of Qin, who has survived an attempt on his life by the assassins Long Sky, Flying Snow, and Broken Sword. Because of the assassination attempt, no visitors are to approach the king within 100 paces. 'Nameless' claims that he has slain the three assassins and he displays their weapons before the king, who allows the former to sit closer to him and tell him his story.
The Music Room (1958)
, 1h40Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Chhabi Biswas, Beghum Akhtar, Roshan Kumari, Sardar Akhtar
Jalsaghar depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity. The landlord, Biswambhar Roy (Chhabi Biswas), is a just but other-worldly man who loves to spend time listening to music and putting up spectacles rather than managing his properties ravaged by floods and the abolition of zamindari system by the Indian government. He is challenged by a commoner who has attained riches through business dealings, in putting up spectacles and organising music fests. This is the tale of a zamindar who has nothing left but respect and sacrifices his family and wealth trying to retain it.
, 1h37Directed by Sergueï Paradjanov
Origin Ukraine
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Ivan Mykolaichuk, Nikolai Grinko, Leonid Yengibarov
In a small Hutsul village in the Carpathian mountains of Ukraine, a young man, Ivan, falls in love with the daughter of the man who killed his father. Though their families share a bitter enmity, Ivan and Marichka have known each other since childhood. In preparation for their marriage, Ivan leaves the village to work and earn money for a household. While he is gone, Marichka accidentally slips into a river and drowns while trying to rescue a lost lamb.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
, 1h46Directed by Frères Coen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Prison films, Radio, Transport films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Évasion, Road movies, Buddy films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Chris Thomas King, Holly Hunter
Three convicts, Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), known as Everett, Pete Hogwallop (John Turturro) and Delmar O’Donnel (Tim Blake Nelson) escape from a chain gang and set out to retrieve the $1.2 million that Everett buried. The three get a lift from a blind man driving a handcar on a railway. He tells them that they will find a fortune, but not the one they seek. The trio make their way to Pete’s cousin Wash’s house. They remove their chains and sleep in the barn, but Wash betrays them and they are woken by policemen led by Sheriff Cooley, who have them surrounded. The police try to smoke them out, but Wash’s son rescues them.
The King of Masks (1995)
, 1h40Directed by Wu Tianming
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Wang is The King of Masks, an aged street performer who practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian. He laments that he has no male heirs to carry on his mysterious and complicated art and trade. At an illegal child market, Wang buys what he believes to be an orphan boy to become his adopted grandson and apprentice.
Fiddlers (1973)
, 2h21Directed by Emil Loteanu
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Mihai Timofti, Svetlana Toma, Grigore Grigoriu
L'action se déroule en Bessarabie au XIX siècle, alors que ce pays moldave était sous la domination des Tzars. Toma Alistar (joué par Sergiu Lunchevici) est le chef d'un taraf (orchestre populaire) de lăutaris ("trouvères" en roumain). Le nom de Toma Alistar est inspiré par la rue Toma Stelian, où se trouve l'ambassade d'URSS à Bucarest, où la mère d'Emil Loteanu travaillait, et où il a passé son enfance : Alistar et Stelian évoquent l'« étoile ». Le personnage d'Alistar est stellaire (sa passion pour la musique, son talent unanimement reconnu), solaire (son humour, sa joie de vivre, son énergie) et lunaire (sa déchirure intime, depuis sa prime jeunesse, où il fut séparé de son grand amour, Leanca, une jeune Rom jouée par Olga Câmpeanu… amour intense mais empêché parce qu'elle était Rom, et lui gadjo c'est-à-dire non-Rom ; en jouant du violon -jusqu'à Vienne devant l'empereur d'Autriche- Alistar ne cesse de rechercher Leanca).
Zorba the Greek (1964)
, 2h22Directed by Michael Cacoyannis, George Cosmatos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Dance films, Films about writers, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irène Papas, Lila Kedrova, Sotiris Moustakas, Ánna Kyriakoú
Basil (Alan Bates) is a half-English, half-Greek writer raised in Britain who bears the hallmarks of an uptight, middle-class Englishman. He is waiting at the Athens port of Piraeus on mainland Greece to catch a boat to Crete when he meets a gruff, yet enthusiastic peasant and musician named Zorba (Anthony Quinn). Basil explains to Zorba that he is traveling to a rural Cretan village where his father owns some land, with the intention of reopening a lignite mine and perhaps curing his writer's block. Zorba relates his experience with mining and convinces Basil to take him along.
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
, 1h45Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Ry Cooder
The film documents how Ry Cooder, long-time friend of Wenders, brought together the ensemble of legendary Cuban musicians to record an album (also called Buena Vista Social Club) and to perform two times with a full line-up: in April 1998 in Amsterdam (two nights) and the 1st of July 1998 in the United States (at the Carnegie Hall, New York City). Although they are geographically close, travel between Cuba and the United States is restricted due to the political tension between the two countries, so many of the artists were travelling there for the first time. The film shows their reactions to this experience, as well as including footage of the resultant sell-out concert. It also includes interviews with each of the main performers.
The Crazy Stranger (1997)
, 1h42Directed by Tony Gatlif
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, La culture tzigane, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Romain Duris, Rona Hartner
Stéphane, a young French man from Paris, travels to Romania. He is looking for the singer Nora Luca, whom his father had heard all the time before his death. Wandering along a frozen road, he meets old Izidor, a Rom (Gypsy) and tries tell him of Nora Luca. Drunken Izidor only hears the handful of Romani words and takes Stephane to his village, determined to teach the boy the Romani language. Stéphane believes that Izidor will take him to Nora Luca when the time has come, so he lives in the Roma village for several months in Izidor's house, as Izidor's son Adriani has been arrested. Izidor is happy to have him as a guest, calling him "his Frenchman" and fixing the young wanderer's worn-out shoes. The other Roma dislike Stephane at first, insulting him in their language and believing him to be a lunatic, tricking him into saying rude words and even into entering a tent where women are bathing. Stéphane gradually wins them over by showing his respect for their music and culture and is rewarded with an intimate look into every aspect of Roma life, from a raucous wedding to a bittersweet funeral. The only person in the village who speaks any French is the tough Sabina, a divorced Romani dancer who is blatantly hostile towards him at first, but the pair eventually bond through a series of trips across the countryside to record traditional Romani music.