Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony
- Documentary
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 28, 2008
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- German, Spanish, English
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- ZDF,BBC,BoomtownMedia
- Cast
- Simon Rattle
- Director
- Thomas Grube
- Writer
- Thomas Grube
- Producer
- Uwe Dierks,Marc Wächter,Peter Hermann,Thomas Grube,Alan Yentob,Anca Monica Pandelca,Andrea Thilo
- Cinematography
- René Dame,Anthony Dod Mantle,Alberto Venzago
- Music
- Simon Stockhausen
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0497990