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Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony (2008)
Directed by Thomas Grube
Documentary · 1h 48m
Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a breakneck concert tour of six metropolises across Asia: Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo. Their artistic triumph onstage belies a dynamic and dramatic life backstage. The orchestra is a closed society that observes its own laws and traditions, and in the words of one of its musicians is, “an island, a democratic microcosm – almost without precedent in the music world - whose social structure and cohesion is not only founded on a common love for music but also informed by competition, compulsion and the pressure to perform to a high pitch of excellence... .” Never before has the Berlin Philharmonic allowed such intimate and exclusive access into its private world.
Cast
Simon Rattle
Crew
- Director
- Thomas Grube
- Screenplay
- Thomas Grube
- Director of Photography
- Anthony Dod Mantle, Alberto Venzago, René Dame
- Original Music Composer
- Simon Stockhausen
- Editor
- Martin Hoffmann
- Producer
- Thomas Grube, Andrea Thilo, Alan Yentob, Anca Monica Pandelca, Uwe Dierks
Details
- Original title
- Trip to Asia - Die Suche nach dem Einklang
- Release date
- 2008-02-28
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German, English, Spanish
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- ZDF, BoomtownMedia, BBC