Available Friday, May 8 via Virtual Screening Room
Loosely inspired by Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Academy-Award nominated director Dror Zahavi’s (Alexander Penn, Everything For My Father) latest follows world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck (Toni Erdmann‘s Peter Simonischek) as he accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra. The two factions fall in line behind two star violinists – the emancipated Palestinian Layla and the handsome Israeli Ron – sparring both on and off-stage, while the conductor presses the young people to put aside their hatred… at least for the three weeks leading up to the climactic concert.
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“True to its name, the German film directed by filmmaker Dror Zahavi reaches a fever pitch as musicians from both sides of a conflict learn to play in sync.” — Rich Tenorio, The Times of Israel
directed by
Dror Zahavi
Dror Zahavi
with
Peter Simonischek, Götz Otto
Peter Simonischek, Götz Otto
country
Germany
Germany