Song of the rivers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Song of the rivers |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joris Ivens |
| script | Joris Ivens Vladimir Pozner |
| production | DEFA studio for documentary films |
| music | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| camera | Erich Nitzschmann and cameramen from over 30 countries |
| cut |
Ella Ensink Traute Wischnewski |
| occupation | |
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Song of the streams is a German documentary of DDR -Filmproduktionsgesellschaft DEFA , the 1954 movie directed by Joris Ivens was born.
action
Parable-like film about the life of workers in different parts of the world, whose fate and their hope for peace are symbolically told by the rivers that flow through their home countries. At the third congress of the World Trade Union Confederation in Vienna in 1953, the workers' demands take concrete shape.
background
The film music was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich , the text was written by Bertolt Brecht . During the filming, the Berlin conductor Walter Raatzke conducted the choir and the Leipzig Radio Orchestra. Artistically worked u. a. Ernst Busch and Paul Robeson too . The first performance took place on September 17, 1954 in Berlin.
criticism
Ivens sings in a visual poem the living conditions of the workers and farmers who live on the world's largest rivers, the Volga, Mississippi, Nile, Ganges, Amazon and Yangtze. The film contrasts the imagery of a world split into irreconcilable blocks with the affective image of a humanity that has overcome all boundaries and flows together.
»Ivens puts together an impressive world panorama, a social cross-section of global proportions. A company that is unique in post-war film history and has not been repeated since. "(Günter Agde)
Award
- 1954: Prize of the Committee for a Better World at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the International Peace Prize of the World Peace Council.
publication
The film is available on DVD.
Web links
- The currents song in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Song of the Streams at the DEFA Foundation
- Song of the Streams at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ DEFA Foundation film database
- ↑ so at absolutmedien.de
- ↑ Order No .: 4040, label absolut.medien , ISBN 978-3-8488-4040-3 . Editor: Ralf Schenk.