Noon in Tunisia (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Noon in Tunisia |
| Country of production | FRG |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 53 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Lilienthal |
| music | George Gruntz |
| cut | Pete Ariel |
| occupation | |
Noon in Tunisia is a German documentary by Peter Lilienthal that was shot in Tunisia in May 1969 and shows jazz musicians around George Gruntz meeting Tunisian musicians. The film was made on behalf of Südwestfunk Baden-Baden .
Story of the film
The film project was preceded by the recording of the album of the same name Noon in Tunisia , where a jazz quintet led by George Gruntz met with Tunisian musicians in the studio of Musik Produktion Schwarzwald in 1967 . When producing Südwestfunk had Joachim-Ernst Berendt enforced the film project. In Tunisia, the jazz band with trumpeter Don Cherry , drummer Daniel Humair , saxophonist Sahib Shihab and bassist Henri Texier met the same musicians who also played on the LP, including the musicologist and Ney virtuoso Salah El Mahdi :
- “They formed the main group that, supported by the Tunisian Ministry of Culture, traveled with us all over Tunisia for two weeks. But we also played with other, local musicians, whose style often changed completely from place to place. ”The musicians visited u. a. the oasis town of El Hamma (Gabès) and Nefta north of the salt lake Chott el Djerid , which the group crossed.
After three weeks, Lilienthal and his team from Südwestfunk (including Pete Ariel ) had shot around a hundred hours of music. The film was edited on the premises of the Literary Colloquium in Berlin. The film was shown on February 23, 1971 on ARD and repeated several times.
Web links
- Noon in Tunisia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c George Gruntz: Born a white negro. A life for jazz. Autobiography. Corvus, Berneck 2002, ISBN 3-9522460-1-8 . P. 71 ff.
- ↑ This week on TV Der Spiegel 9/1971
- ↑ This week on TV Der Spiegel 17/1974