“A superb account providing an understanding of the creative impulse and how it is captured and expressed.”—The National Business Review
Chopin’s grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and his music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide—but who exactly was this man who was terrified of public performance, who fled his Polish homeland for Paris never to return, and despite a life of ill-health, wrote some of the deepest and most powerful music ever written?
For four years, award-winning director Phil Grabsky travelled the globe in his quest to lay bare the life and music of Chopin. Some of the world’s best musicians provide the score, including Leif Ove Andsnes, Daniel Barenbolm, Ronald Brautigam, and the Orchestra of the 18th Century.
Funny, heart-breaking, inspirational—this film has been called the first to illustrate the true nature of this remarkable and still widely-loved composer.
Screened in connection with Chopin’s birthday on March 1. 2014, U.K., DCP, 115 minutes.