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When Silence Sings depicts, in a symphony of images, how silent films awaken to new life through music. In a documentary portrait, the film-obsessed composer and pianist, Aljoscha Zimmermann, reveals how his passionate work recreates the cine concert, when his scores resound around the globe and audiences experience how silent films not only speak, but sing. The documentary accompanies the Russian born artist to concert tours in Paris, Moscow and Berlin, to rehearsals and to his “piano and desk” in his atelier in Munich where the unique journey of images and new music begins. Irina Goldstein, the director, but also the older daughter of the protagonist, has created a personal and intimate filmic encounter in the homage to film music.

Germany - 2005 - 1 h 34 mn - 35 mm - Colour and B&W

Director Irina Goldstein Writer Irina Goldstein Camera Gerardo Milsztein Sound Rainer Schamel Editing Rainer Schamel, Irina Goldstein

Production Magic Hour Creations GmbH, Trogerstr.17, 81675 Munich, Allemagne Tél : +49 (0)89 28 3999 Fax : +49 (0)89 28 05111 E-mail : irina.goldstein@magic-hour.de Co-Production Transit Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk

Sales Transit Film, Dachauer Str. 35, 80 335 Münich, Allemagne Tél : +49 89 599 8850 Fax : +49 89 5998 8520