Music under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
Music under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
- Christian Berger
- Germany
- 2022
86 min
English
7
Artdoc rating
Why was classical music so important to Nazis? An insight into that is provided by the stories of a Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who survived Auschwitz and of a star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler who worked with the Nazis. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor, whereas Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was a cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. The conductor made a pact with Hitler and his henchmen. The young woman, brought to Auschwitz for being Jewish, was spared death for her musical talent.
Authors
Film crew
- Director
- Christian Berger
- Screen writer
- Christian Berger
- Operator
- Johannes Imdahl, Sven Jakob-Engelmann, Paul Georg Busse, Simon Hatchkin, Nikolai Sevke
- Producer
- Bernhard von Hülsen, Maria Willer, Frauke Sandig, Tim Klimeš, Rolf Rische
- Composer
- Marcus Zahn
- Sound producer
- Waldemar Bruch, Andrew Cahill, Karsten Höfer, Robert Sandow, Martin Schleicher
MOVIE ABOUT
- Theme
- History, War
- Country
- Germany
- Film studio
- Deutsche Welle / 3B-Produktion
- Festivals
- Artdocfest 2023
- Financing
- Television
- Languages
- English
Tags
Война
История