2007
7.3 (17 votes)
1h 42m
Genres
Music
Production Companies
Films 59
The Silence Before Bach (Die Stille vor Bach)
Overview
This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.
Key Crew
Director: Pere Portabella
Writer: Xavier Albertí, Pere Portabella, Carles Santos
Producer: Pere Portabella
Director of Photography: Tomàs Pladevall
Top Cast
Christian Atanasiu
Mayordomo
Féodor Atkine
Vendedor de Pianos
Georg Christoph Biller
Self
Christian Brembeck
J. S. Bach
Àlex Brendemühl
Camioner
Georgina Cardona
Violonchelista
Lucien Dekoster
Afinador de Pianos
Beatriz Ferrer-Salat
Amazona
