| Format | DCP |
|---|---|
| Duration | 92 min |
| Year | 2011 |
| Original Language | German |
| Subtitles | |
| Country | Germany |
| ISAN |
The singing City
A film by Vadim Jendreyko
Synopsis
Singing in never-ending corridors; a refrigerator filled with blood behind the wig shelf; twittering fairies glide through the canteen; timpani, trumpets, and the omnipresent voice over the loudspeaker. Prompting, grand soliloquies and absurd dialogues. Every gesture counts. Below the stage, on massive hoists, a jubilant chorus floats upwards: «The Singing City.» The film uses Calixto Bieito’s Parsifal production in Stuttgart as its central theme, enabling viewers to immerse themselves into the complex world of a major opera house and observe the people in this mystifying world as they go about their daily work. Visions contend here with the reality of what is feasible: every opera a Babylonian endeavour and a veritable pleasure for the senses.
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«I wanted to observe how tensions, contradictions or limits influence humans and how they find solutions and compromisses. Are there losers and winners in such a process?»
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