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Joaquín Achúcarro & the Berliner Philharmoniker - De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Joaquín Achúcarro plays with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of musical director Sir Simon Rattle "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" by Manuel de Falla.
Length
28 mins
Prog. No.
5878

Rolando Villazón's "L’Elisir d’Amore" In The Wild West

Rolando Villazón as director and Nemorino: these tidings alone were enough to unleash a worldwide "run" on tickets to the Baden-Baden 2012 Pentecost-holiday opera. After his directorial debut in 2011 ("Werther", Lyon) the Mexican tenor now takes it a…
Length
29 mins
Prog. No.
5937

Soprano Annette Dasch: That is why music is the most important thing

This portrait follows Annette Dasch in her time in Bayreuth, Geneva, Munich and Berlin, during rehearsals, in performances, and in preparations of her show “Annettes DaschSalon”. The 2010/2011 season was marked by special events - from major debuts…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
5991

A Film and its Era: The Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)

Following on from his "biography" of Claude Berri's French megahit movie, "Tchao Pantin", in this new film, Serge July investigates the life and times of Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial 1972 tragedy, "Last Tango in Paris". "Last Tango" is a noir…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6187

A Film and its Era: Rome, Open City (Robert Rossellini)

This 52-minute documentary tells the story of the conception, the filming, the Italian première, and the world-wide release of the film that has become a manifesto of Italian Neo-Realism, and which revolutionized cinematographic narration by…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6188

A Film and its Era: Tess (Roman Polanski)

This documentary is a testimony to the ambition to make ‘’a European film’’ that could compete against Hollywood. It is also an exceptional portrait of a director who was haunted by the game of chance, and coincidence.
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6189

A Film and its Era: My Uncle (Jacques Tati)

Monsieur Hulot is almost a silent film: Jacques Tati prefers gestures and noise to words, which, similar to his contemporary Beckett, are reduced to a succession of incomprehensible vowel sounds.
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6190

A Film and its Era: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)

Jacques Demy directs ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’ in 1963. Portrait of a film : Geneviève and Guy fall in love in Cherbourg, in 1957. Guy is called to service in Algeria, leaving Geneviève behind, pregnant and broken-hearted. The film is the dream…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6191

A Film and its Era: Some like it Hot (Billy Wilder)

Billy Wilder films ‘Some Like It Hot’ in 1958. Portrait of a film: a movie that is at once a satire of the United States and its imitators, a burlesque parody, a thriller, a musical comedy filmed in black and white, an audacious look at the confusion…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6192

A Film and its Era: Wild at Heart (David Lynch)

David Lynch’s ‘Wild at Heart’ is released in 1990. Portrait of a film: two innocents share a passionate, sexual love adventure as they traverse a crazy world. It is Romeo and Juliet retold as a rock n’ roll road movie, a love forged in hell. It wins…
Length
30 mins
Prog. No.
6193