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Kurt Weill was born in 1900. The son of a Jewish cantor, he grew up in Dessau. He went to Berlin to study with several renowned musical composers. His cooperation with the playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht in the 1920s brought about his artistic breakthrough.The Nazis drove him out of Germany. He first went to Paris, where he had already become famous as the composer of the "Three Penny Opera“. But soon he went to United States. Here he was to realize his dream of becoming an American composer.Weill was soon successful on Broadway and in Hollywood. But the fight for fame wore him out early. He died aged 50.The young filmmaker Sven Düfer and Weill’s biographer Jürgen Schebera have followed the composer‘s steps in order to create an hommage to Weill’s 100th birthday. The film traces the stages of his restless artistic odyssey. It leads to places and people that were of decisive importance in Kurt Weill’s life and tells the eventful and moving story of his relationship with the singer Lotte Lenya, Weill‘s partner who performed many of his famous songs. Renowned international artists - amongst them stars like Milva, Blixa Bargeld and Jocelyn B. Smith - have contributed to the artist‘s documentary portrait and they bear witness to the vitality and modernity of Kurt Weill‘s music in the 21st century.

Germany - 2001 - 1 h - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation Sven Düfer Image Christian Schulz Son Tilo Feinermann, Joachim Hütteroth, Gerhard Jensen-Nelson Montage Petra Jurowski, Heidrun Schweizer

Production The Viko, Theater Video Kommunikation, Oechelhaenserstr.39, 06846 Dessau, Allemagne Tél : +49 177 777 661 Fax : +49 340 614 220 Co-Production Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

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