Film

Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony

2008 · 1h 48m · Documentary

IMDb

7.4

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.

Simon Rattle

Himself

• Thomas GrubeProducer · Director · Screenplay
• Andrea ThiloProducer
• Alan YentobProducer
• Anca Monica PandelcaProducer
• Uwe DierksProducer
• Marc WächterExecutive Producer
• Peter HermannExecutive Producer
• Anthony Dod MantleDirector of Photography
• Alberto VenzagoDirector of Photography
• René DameDirector of Photography

Release date

February 28, 2008

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

AA

Genres

Documentary

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