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We Want the Light | Christopher Nupen Films A16CND

We Want the Light

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Label: Christopher Nupen Films

Cat No: A16CND

Barcode: 0814446010123

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Documentary

Release Date: 28th January 2013

Contents

Artists

Vladimir Ashkenazy
Daniel Barenboim
Leon Botstein
Margaret Brearley
Michael Haas
Elyakim Ha’Etzni
Evgeny Kissin
Norman Lebrecht
Zubin Mehta
Itzhak Perlman
Toby Perlman
Paul Lawrence Rose
Alice Sommer
Jacques Stroumsa
Uri Toeplitz
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Yirmiyahu Yovel
Pinchas Zukerman

Artists

Vladimir Ashkenazy
Daniel Barenboim
Leon Botstein
Margaret Brearley
Michael Haas
Elyakim Ha’Etzni
Evgeny Kissin
Norman Lebrecht
Zubin Mehta
Itzhak Perlman
Toby Perlman
Paul Lawrence Rose
Alice Sommer
Jacques Stroumsa
Uri Toeplitz
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Yirmiyahu Yovel
Pinchas Zukerman

About

Christopher Nupen's award-winning film about freedom, survival and the extraordinary place of music in the Nazi concentration camps.

This is a re-release – on our own label for the first time – of our prize-winning DVD 'We Want the Light'. The title is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words provide both the title and the climax – in a setting for two choruses and orchestra by the American composer Franz Waxman, in his touching work The Song of Terezin.

It is a film about many things. It is about freedom and captivity, about emancipation, acculturation and assimilation; it is about the roles played by Moses and Felix Mendelssohn in the dream of fruitful, unproblematic integration of the Jews into German society after their liberation from the ghettos; it is about Richard Wagner, his ferociously anti-Semitic essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (The Jews in Music) and his influence on the thinking of the Third Reich but, most of all, it is a film about how much music can mean to people, even in the direst of circumstances, or particularly in the direst circumstances.

Evgeny Kissin plays the slow movement of the F minor Piano Sonata, Op.5 by Johannes Brahms.

With:
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Leon Botstein, Margaret Brearley, Michael Haas, Elyakim Ha’Etzni, Evgeny Kissin, Norman Lebrecht, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Toby Perlman, Paul Lawrence Rose, Alice Sommer, Jacques Stroumsa, Uri Toeplitz, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Yirmiyahu Yovel and Pinchas Zukerman

Music by:
Mahler, Bach, Schoenberg, Bruch, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schubert, Bloch, Waxman and Brahms.

- Winner of the Jewish Cultural Award for Film and Television 2004
- Winner, Best Editing, New York Film and Television Festival 2004
- Broadcast on BBC television on Holocaust Memorial Day 2004 and 2005
- Critic’s Choice or Pick of the Day in six national British Newspapers
- Winner, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2005
- Winner, DVD of the Year Award, 2005

Format: NTSC
Region: 0 (all regions)
Picture format: 16:9 anamorphic
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/ES
Running time: approx 330 minutes

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