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Hilde Zadek sang on almost every major stage between Moskau and New York. At the age of 17 she had to flee Nazi Germany and escape to Palestine. After WW2 she became the first Jewish singer to start her career at the Vienna State Opera. The film accompanies Hilde Zadek, who is today 86 years old, during her master classes in the Swiss Tessin and Jerusalem, to the Salzburg Festival and to Vienna, where she tells from the soprano's life and the developement of the artist's personality.

Austria / Germany / Netherlands / Switzerland - 2003 - 58 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour and B&W

Director Walter Wehmeyer Script Walter Wehmeyer Camera Hartmut Schulz, Yoav Kosh Sound Benedikt Fruttiger Editing Daniel Gawrilow, Christoph Weber

Production Petrus van der Let Filmproduktion, Schleifmühlgasse 5, 1040 Wien, Autriche Tél : +431 5869 5760 Fax : +431 586 8917 E-mail : vanderlet.p@aon.at

Sales Petrus van der Let Filmproduktion, Schleifmühlgasse 5, 1040 Wien, Autriche Tél : +431 5869 5760 Fax : +431 586 8917 E-mail : vanderlet.p@aon.at