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 Synopsis:
“The Silence before Bach” is an approach to music and the trades and subjects that surround it through Bach’s works.
A look at the profound dramaturgic relationship between image and music where the latter is not merely conceived as subsidiary to the image but as a subject of the narration in its own right.
The film springs from a previously defined musical structure. The soundtrack feeds on works by J.S Bach and two of Felix Mendelssohn’s sonatas to create an architectural vault beneath which the story of the film unfolds ; a promenade through the XVIIIth, XIXth and XXIth centuries led by the hand of J.S. Bach.
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Technical Specifications:
Director: Pere Portabella
Script: Pere Portabella, Carles Santos, Xavier Albertí
Production: Films 59
Photography: Tomás Pladevall (A.E.C)
Sound: Albert Manera
Sound mix: Ricard Casals
Production Manager: Pasqual Otal
Production Assistant: Estitxu Elizasu
First Assistant Director: Jordi Vidal Amorós
Script supervisor: Annie Settimo
Art direction: Quim Roy
Costume designer: Montse Figueras
Steadycam: Ramón Sánchez
Key Grip: Charli Guerrero
Editor: Òskar Xabier Gómez
Make up: Claudia de Anta
Hairdresser: Eva Sanz
KODAK 35 mm (5218 – 500ASA)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 :1
Dolby Stero 5.1
102 min. Color
V.O. Spanish and German with English subtitles
Featured in 2007
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Texts:
 El silencio antes de Bach A film by Pere Portabella. Marcelo Expósito, 2007.
El silencio antes de Bach is an approximation of music and its related disciplines and professions through the work of Juan Sebastian Bach. The film is a reflection on the deep dramaturgical relations between image and music, where music is not merely a subsidiary substratum of image, but a subject of parity.
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Pere Portabella: “No, I can’t explain the film because I have no arguments to do so.”
EFE - Sept. 7, 2007
The director, Pere Portabella, presented his film “The Silence Before Bach” at the 64th Venice Film Festival yesterday, a work with Johann Sebastian Bach’s music as the background. Presented in the official Horizons section that is dedicated to innovative cinematographic languages, the film shows us images linking a truckdriver who plays Bach (interpreted by Alex Brendemühl) with a piano salesman (Feodor Atkine), Bach himself (Christian Brembeck) and the musician Felix Mendelssohn (Daniel Ligorio).
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