Tribute to Pere Portabella

EL SILENCIO ANTES DE BACH

Pere Portabella | Spain | 2007 | 100 min
O.V in Spanish, German and Catalan subtitled in English and Spanish

Here is a film that is music. Portabella manages to make a total, reflexive, dreamlike and political work that achieves in its expanded dialogue with other arts and facets of thought reaching the highest purity of cinema. He transports through Bach's works in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. From Bach himself playing the organ to his rediscovery by Mendelssohn, from cellists playing one of his preludes in a subway car to a piano that falls into the sea in memory of the Jewish musicians who died during the Second World War, or from the truck driver who plays chamber music to the "Bach" who directs tourist visits in Leipzig.

Direction: Pere Portabella
Script: Pere Portabella, Carles Santos, Xavier Albert
Cinematography: Tomàs Pladevall (A.E.C.)
Sound: Albert Manera
Cast:  Alex Brendemühl, Feodor Atkine, Christian Brembeck, Daniel Ligorio, Georgina Cardona, Ferran Ruíz, Jaume Melendres, Antonio Serrano, Georg Christopher Biller
Production Company: Films 59

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