Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony (2008)
Overview
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.
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| Original Language | de |
| Popularity | 0.357 |
Directed By
Thomas Grube
Crew
Thomas Grube
Anthony Dod Mantle
Martin Hoffmann
Alberto Venzago
René Dame
Andrea Thilo
Alan Yentob
Simon Stockhausen
Anca Monica Pandelca
Thomas Grube
Uwe Dierks
Thomas Grube
Stefan Ciupek
Tom Korr
Tom Korr
Pascal Capitolin
Robert Jäger
Simon Stockhausen
Marc Wächter
Stefan Ciupek
Lukas Macher
Peter Hermann
Florian Beck
Bernd von Bassewitz
TOP CAST
Simon Rattle
Himself
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