Orchestra rehearsal (film)
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German title | Orchestral rehearsal |
Original title | Prova d'orchestra |
Country of production | Italy , Germany |
original language | Italian |
Publishing year | 1979 |
length | 70 minutes |
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Director | Federico Fellini |
script | Federico Fellini |
production | Peter Berling |
music | Nino Rota |
camera | Giuseppe Rotunno |
cut | Ruggero Mastroianni |
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Orchestra rehearsal is a film by Italian director Federico Fellini from the year 1979 . In an allegory he shows the chaos of Italian society and the inability of its politics to achieve positive results in this environment.
action
The film takes place in a rehearsal room for classical music. The conductor allegorically stands for the Italian leadership and the orchestra for the people. While the conductor is trying desperately to organize an orderly game, the individual players are busy with their own things or disturb with discussions and absurd demands. The hustle and bustle of the players takes on increasingly anarchic traits, until suddenly a huge wrecking ball in the function of a “ Deus ex Machina ” hits a wall of the room. In the silence that has arisen, the conductor begins to conduct again and all players now intonate the planned symphony in an orderly manner .
Reviews
"The greatest value of the film lies in the fact that it is able to reproduce a climate, a febrile illness, without - as many would like to believe - already having undergone any treatment, but rather as if he were only looking at it with an X-ray machine, or rather with his eyes who see now microscopically, now macroscopically, the eyes of the "déformation poetique". " ( Avanti ! , Milan)
"The metaphor of a world that threatens to perish in the chaos that it has created itself." ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung )
“Rousing and healing. A spectacle of unusual richness. A dramatic appeal to the miserable, grotesque humanity, painted by Fellini with his own colors, to finally recognize themselves in the mercilessly held up mirror and to do something. A tremendously honest film of confusing, unsettling complexity. ” ( L'Unita Milan )
Awards
- 1979: Nastro d'Argento des Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (best film music)
- 1980: Prix Léon Moussinac of the Association Française de la Critique de Cinéma (Best Foreign Film)
Web links
- Orchestra rehearsal at the Internet Movie Database (English)