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Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony (2008) [N/A]

Release Date:
February 28, 2008

Original Title:
Trip to Asia - Die Suche nach dem Einklang

Alternate Titles:
Trip to Asia - Die Suche nach dem Einklang

Genres:
Documentary

Production Companies:
BBC
BoomtownMedia
ZDF

Production Countries:
Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: AA 

Runtime: 108

Overview from TheMovieDB

Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a breakneck concert tour of six metropolises across Asia: Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo. Their artistic triumph onstage belies a dynamic and dramatic life backstage. The orchestra is a closed society that observes its own laws and traditions, and in the words of one of its musicians is, “an island, a democratic microcosm – almost without precedent in the music world - whose social structure and cohesion is not only founded on a common love for music but also informed by competition, compulsion and the pressure to perform to a high pitch of excellence... .” Never before has the Berlin Philharmonic allowed such intimate and exclusive access into its private world.

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Production

Additional Photography:
Stefan Ciupek

Assistant Director:
Lukas Macher

Camera Operator:
Stefan Ciupek

Director:
Thomas Grube

Director of Photography:
Anthony Dod Mantle
René Dame
Alberto Venzago

Editor:
Martin Hoffmann

Executive Producer:
Marc Wächter
Peter Hermann

Original Music Composer:
Simon Stockhausen

Producer:
Thomas Grube
Andrea Thilo
Alan Yentob
Uwe Dierks
Anca Monica Pandelca

Screenplay:
Thomas Grube

Sound:
Bernd von Bassewitz
Pascal Capitolin

Sound Designer:
Simon Stockhausen

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Tom Korr
Florian Beck
Robert Jäger

Supervising Sound Editor:
Tom Korr

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