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Shadow Distribution |
Release Date:
January 30, 2008
Summary:
The Silence Before Bach is a mélange of genres including narrative vignettes and documentary sequences on the theme of the transformational power of great music. At one moment his camera records a subway car packed with passionate cello-playing musicians; at another he is following a guide who gives tours of Leipzig dressed in full Bach regalia; and in a third he stages Felix Mendelssohn’s discovery of sheet music for the “St. Matthew Passion” used by a butcher to wrap meat. By turns funny and serious, poignant, sexy and refreshing, "The Silence Before Bach" is very nearly unclassifiable, like so much of Portabella’s oeuvre. (Film Forum)
Details
| Runtime: | 102 min |
| Production: | Films 59 |
| Genres: | Musical |
| Country: | Spain |
| Languages: | German, Spanish, Catalan |
| Director | Credit |
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| Pere Portabella | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
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| Carles Santos | Writer |
| Pere Portabella | Writer |
| Xavier Albertí | Writer |
| Cast | Credit |
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| Àlex Brendemühl | Camioner |
| Beatriz Ferrer-Salat | Amazona |
| Bert Kripstädt | Camarero |
| Christian Atanasiu | Mayordomo |
| Christian Brembeck | J. S. Bach |
| Daniel Ligorio | F. Mendelssohn |
| Féodor Atkine | Vendedor De Pianos |
| Ferran Ruiz | Hijo De Bach |
| George-Christoph Biller | Himself |
| Georgina Cardona | Violonchelista |
| Gertrud Kossler | Clienta |
| Jordi Llordella | Amigo De Mendelssohn |
| Lina Lambert | Madre De Mendelssohn |
| Lucien Dekoster | Afinador De Pianos |
| Thomas Sauerteig | Amigo De La Violonchelista |
| Producer | Credit |
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| Helena Goma | Assistant Producer |
| Pascual Otal | Line Producer |
| Pere Portabella | Producer |
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