Gidon Kremer – Finding your own voice

Synopsis

He is a violinist of the century who is a stranger to entertainment. He is an exception in an industry that is aimed currently at market value, marketing and mass appeal: Gidon Kremer is one of the most exciting artist personalities of our time. Gidon Kremer – Finding your own voice is a calm and thoughtful portrait of the great violinist and intellectual. Over the course of one year, Paul Smaczny accompanied Gidon Kremer with the camera, observing him with his Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra in Paris and his native Riga, and as a soloist in Moscow and Tokyo, as well as encountering him as a socially and politically active person. Gidon Kremer – Finding your own voice seeks to find out what drives a person like Gidon Kremer, what lies behind making music, where the deep meaning of music lies hidden. A film about a great intellectual who sees himself as a mediator of values whose ethos is alien to, indeed contrary to, any form of narcissism and profit-seeking.

Additional Info

• No: 9531
• Artists: Kremerata Baltica, Giedre Dirvanauskaite, Tatjana Grindenko, Olesya Petrova, State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov", Vladimir Jurowski, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
• Production year: 2018
• Run time: 00:58:00
• Director: A film by Paul Smaczny
• Producers: Accentus, ZDF/Arte
• Format: HDTV 16:9