A documentary with extraordinary and previously unpublished material about the “world‘s foremost composer of tango music” – Astor Piazzolla. The Argentine bandoneon player and composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) revolutionized the tango. His tango…

On the 8th of June 1968 Vladimir Ashkenazy, with his Icelandic wife and their two children, arrived at their new home in Reykjavik in Iceland. It was a crucial moment in their lives. They had left the Soviet Union, with the help of Nikita Kruschev…

The film portrays Igor Stravinsky, one of the most fascinating artistic personalities of the 20th century. Numerous visual and audio documents trace his most important stations in life and work in Russia, Western Europe and America. Stravinsky is…

Andrés Segovia died on the 2nd June 1987 at the age of 94. His career was one of the longest and most distinguished in the history of music. He gave his first concert in Granada in 1909 at the age of 16 and his last in Miami 78 years later only a few…

Released in 1987, "Wall Street" is Oliver Stone's fifth feature film. This is the first fiction film to depict in such a widely documented way the American world of high finance at the time of the great deregulation during Reagan’s presidency. Oliver…

A film by Christopher Nupen with the young Russian master pianist who has taken the classical music world by storm in the past fifteen years. Evgeny Kissin not only has dazzling virtuosity and unmistakable star-appeal, his meteoric rise to the top of…

This film was shot in three days early in March 1966 and edited in three weeks. It was the first of its kind and there have been so many successors in the past thirty years that it can truthfully be described as epoch-making. It is probably still the…

Portrait of a film: Marius and Jeanette is the seventh feature film by Robert Guédiguian. In the northern quarters of Marseille, Marius, security guard at an abandoned factory, meets Jeanette, an employee in a supermarket who has just been fired…

Released in 2006, filmmaker Stephen Frears’ nineteenth feature film « the Queen » isn’t a biopic depicting the reign of Elizabeth II, the longest in the history of the British monarchy, but a portrait of the conflict between young Prime Minister Tony…

Jean Renoir shot The Rules of the Game in 1939. Portrait of a film: Jean Renoir’s «dramatic fantasy» depicts the provincial French aristocracy with candid humor. From nobles to servants, from a masquerade ball to game hunting, a small community gets…