Choir of the Prisoners | Der Gefangenenchor | Il coro dei prigionieri - Animaphix New Contemporary Languages Film Festival

Choir of the Prisoners | Der Gefangenenchor | Il coro dei prigionieri

Raimund Krumme
Germania | 2004 | 6’30’’

The film is based on a scene in Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. The inmates in the Seville prison are kept in dark cells without daylight. Now, for the first time after years, they are allowed to see the sun. Light as a metaphor for freedom.

Direction: Raimund Krumme
Cinematography: Peter Polsak
Editing: Erik Stappenbeck
Sound Design: Tomas Gianluca Riccardi
Visual Effects: Jan Hübel
Choreography: Dragana Cukavac
With: Marc Bodenbach, Kathrin Brunner, Thomas Bujak, Matthew Burton, Pablo Troccoli, Andreas Jocksch, Sabine Hertling, Jürgen Lindner, Elwiera Niewiera, Ricarda Schuh
Producer: Günter Klaucke
Production: Bundesministerium des Inneren BKM, FFA

Raimund Krumme

Independent animation filmmaker who also directed commercials for the American and Japanese market. His animated shorts Rope Dance (1986), Spectators (1989), Crossroads (1991), Passage (1994) and The Message (2000) have won many international awards including the Prix du Jury in Annecy, two times the Bundesfilmpreis, Filmband in Gold (Bonn), Silver Dragon (Cracow) and Grand Prix for animation (Montreal). His films and drawings have been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide. Recently he exhibited drawings and animations in Lisbon at the Sociedade Nationalde Belas Artes at Monstra-Animation-Festival. Before he exhibited his works at UPV-Valencia, Fuzhong F15-museum for animation and documentary in New Taipei City, in Meknes (Morocco) at the Institut Français, in Gori (Georgia) and several times in Berlin. He has a huge experience in teaching Media Arts at universities all over the world.