Movie Details
Cast & Crew
C
Christian Atanasiu
as Mayordomo
G
Georg Christoph Biller
as Self
C
Christian Brembeck
as J. S. Bach
The Silence Before Bach (2008)
Audience Score
DirectorPere Portabella
WritersCarles Santos
Plot
A beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.
