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Film screening
Le concert
Stadtkino Basel
Klostergasse 5, 4051 Basel
"After star conductor Andrei Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) refused to kick Jewish musicians out of the orchestra, the Communist government demoted him to a cleaning crew.
Event details
"After star conductor Andrei Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) refused to kick Jewish musicians out of the orchestra, the communist government demoted him to a cleaner. [...] One day, in the director's office, a fax from the Theatre du Châtelet falls into his hands: the Bolshoi is asked to give a guest performance at the famous Paris concert hall. Filipov quickly bags the fax and deletes the accompanying e-mail. His insane idea: to round up the original cast of the orchestra and perform in Paris himself without further ado."
Florian Schulz, filmstarts.de
"Comedy, drama, history, a dark family secret and great music - when a film combines all that, it turns a visit to the cinema into an experience.The Concert[...] is much more than a music film, as the title would suggest."
Laura Bader, artechock.de
Contributors and additional information:
France, Italy, Romania, Belgium 2009.
122 min. color. 35mm. OV/d/f
Director: Radu Mihăileanu
Screenplay: Radu Mihăileanu, Alain-Michel Blanc, Matthew Robbins
Cinematography: Laurent Daillland
Editing: Ludo Troch
Music: Armand Amar, Julien Baril
With: Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitriy Nazarov
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