Ambassadors of Music (1952)

Original title

Botschafter der Musik

Directed by

Hermann Stöß

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 18m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary from 1951 follows the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as it rebuilds after World War Two. Under conductor Sergiu Celibidache, the orchestra travels to perform for audiences across Europe. The film shows music as a way to restore a positive image of West Germany.

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What happens

Ambassadors of Music (German: Botschafter der Musik) is a 1952 West German musical documentary film directed by Hermann Stöß. Made in 1951, it charts the revival of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in post-war Germany under the leadership of Sergiu Celibidache. During the war the orchestra's concert hall had been bombed-out. The film portrays the Orchestra as part of a revived German culture, that had survived the Nazi years and was now presenting a positive image of the new West Germany to the people of Europe. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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