FUTURE BROADCAST: Robert Stolz - Music of reconciliation

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a co-production with ORF and ZDFtheaterkanal

 

directors
Thomas Voigt,
Wolfgang Wunderlich
written by
Thomas Voigt, Barbara Wunderlich
camera and editing
Wolfgang Wunderlich
executive producer
Barbara Wunderlich
first broadcasts
ZDFtheaterkanal 10-25-.2009
ORF 2 10-26-2009
duration 58'

His melodies have been loved by many for over a century, but his story is known to few

Although favoured by the Nazis, because he was one of the most successful musicians of his time, he helped many Jews to escape from Germany, until he too had to escape, risking his life. He immigrated to the US where his music became synonymous with a Germany of better times. After the war, he returned to Vienna and once again rebuilt his career.

On his first journey to Israel in the early 1960s, Stolz controversially insisted on his music being sung in German. The expected uproar about breaking this taboo didn't materialise, the audience were moved to tears hearing the songs they recalled from happier times.

This film from Wunderlich Medien tells the moving story of a musical genius, whose love of music and gift of composition together with his courage and humanity helped heal the wounds of an entire generation.

Interviews with: Udo Jürgens, Max Raabe, André Rieu, Anneliese Rothenberger, Marta Eggerth, Wolfgang Rademann, Renate Holm, Ingrid Wendl, Nigel Douglas, Clarissa Henry (daughter of Einzi Stolz).

Archive footage featuring: Einzi and Robert Stolz, Marta Eggerth, Jan Kiepura, Theo Lingen, Leo Slezak, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Deanne Durbin, Marcel Prawy, Nicolai Gedda and more

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