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Portrait of a young man of humble origins from Basle, a man who had one passion -music- and one desire: to become a conductor. This is also the portrait of a man who always knew what he wanted and seems always to have gotten it. It's the story of an arts patron, a conductor and a pharmaceuticals magnate from Basle, a man who, in his own way, served as a link between the world of art and the world of power and finance. A man whose life straddled an entire century of music and who knew how to adapt, who commissioned works from Béla Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, Arthur Honegger and many more, right into the last decade of the 20th century.

Switzerland / France - 2001 - 1 h 03 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation Edna Politi Scénario Edna Politi, Marie-Pierre Duhamel-Müller Image Axel Brandt Son Pavol Jan Jasovsky, Dieter Meyer Décors Pierre-Henri Magnier Montage Edna Politi

Production Ventura Film SA, Al Castello, 6866 Meride, Suisse Tél : +41 91 646 20 21 Fax : +41 91 646 03 86 E-mail : ventura@venturafilm.ch Co-Production ARTE G.E.I.E., Contrechamps Productions, Schweizer Fernsehen DRS

Ventes Ventura Film SA, Al Castello, 6866 Meride, Suisse Tél : +41 91 646 20 21 Fax : +41 91 646 03 86 E-mail : ventura@venturafilm.ch