Yehudi Menuhin – The Swiss Years
Switzerland, July 2006
FILM,
Documentary,
56 min.
- directed by
- Felice Zenoni
- Written by
- Felice Zenoni
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.meschuggefilm.ch
When Yehudi Menuhin, one of the 20th Century’s greatest violinists, moved his family to Gstaad in the 1950s, the world famous Menuhin Festival of Music was born. Artists and colleagues arrived from all over the world, resulting in legendary musical encounters such as one between Menuhin and composer Benjamin Britten. The film’s illustrious contributors include Menuhin’s pupils such as world famous violinists Nigel Kennedy and Alberty Lysy, as well as Menuhin’s own children, who tell of a not always easy relationship with their father. Hereto unseen archive concert footage completes this fascinating documentary about the world citizen and humanist who died in 1999.
credits
- World Premiere
- July 2006
- Original Version
- English, b/w, Digi Beta, 56 min.
- Production
- Mesch & Ugge AG, SRG SSR
- Producer
- directed by
- Felice Zenoni
- Written by
- Felice Zenoni
- Cinematography
- Marcello Weiss
- Editing
- Christian Müller
- Music
- Menuhin School London, London Symphony Orchestra
- Location Sound Mix
- Toni Adam, Jürg Minelli
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Accent Films International Ltd.
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
-
Mesch & Ugge AG
Distribution
Release date: tba
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Mumbai International Film Festival
03.02.2008 - 09.02.2008