The Ninth - An Exceptional Destiny

200455 min 34 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Pierre-Henry Salfati

Production: Paul Saadoun (13 Production)Christina Ruiz de LuqueVéronique RabuteauÉric Michel (National Film Board of Canada)Joanne CarrièreDetlef Ziegert (Sur Films)Yvonne Ruocco

Script: Pierre-Henry Salfati

Produced by 13 Production in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, Arte France and Sur Films, with the contribution of France 5, Sveriges Television and WDR.

"Embrace each other, you living millions. Let this kiss go to the whole world." Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" is the setting for the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This hymn to universal brotherhood, first performed in 1824, has been adopted as a symbol by romantic poets, anarchists, communists, Nazis and the European Union. How has one musical work inspired so many, from humanists to tyrants?

Subject categories

  • Music > Classical Music
  • Literature and Language > World Literature

Credits

writer
Pierre-Henry Salfati
director
Pierre-Henry Salfati
music consultant
Christian Labrande
narrator
John Tarzwell
editing
Mathilde Morieres
Deborah Braun
assistant editor
Didier Armisen
Benjamin Yvert
camera
Marc Atgé
Céline Bozon
Nicolas Mandritch
Vladimir Biélochouk
Udo Alberts
Bernhard Neubauer
sound
Sébastien De Monchy
Suzanne Durand
Georges Stiémosky
Philippe Lamielle
Roland Winkler
production administrator
Danièle Borg
Catherine Frebourg
Marie-Christine Gely
location production manager
Malik Menaï
Clarisse Gatti
Fabien Boutron
post-production
Malik Menaï
Clarisse Gatti
Fabien Boutron
production secretary
Vania Dos Santos
Sandra Moella
Christina Stingl
research
Virginie Guibbaud
Florence Martin-Kessler
Elise Fernandez
Susan Hormuth
Cédric Maros
Florence Sarasin
Valérie Massignon
Anne Gaussens
post-production co-ordinator
Jean-Pierre St-Michel
post-production co-ordinator - assistance
Françoise Lemaire
sound editing
Daniel Toussaint
on-line picture and sound editing
Phyllis Lewis
Claude Chevalier
re-recording
Shelley Craig
Geoffrey Mitchell
administration
Maryse Chapdelaine
administration assistant
Brigitte Couture
Isabelle de Bellefeuille
voice director
Kathleen Fee
voice casting
Kathleen Fee
voice recording
Kathleen Fee
translation consultant
Robert Gray
production manager
Christopher Mitchell
Leonid Vinokour
Marcello Ruocco
Frank Goess
interpreter
Olga Peretz
assistant
Gaby Lingke
researcher
Gaby Lingke
translation
Kurt Danner
Bertrand Brouder
Beate Sonntag
Florence Martin-Kessler
Bettina Blancher
Mariana Alexieva
producer
Paul Saadoun
Christina Ruiz de Luque
Véronique Rabuteau
Éric Michel
Joanne Carrière
Detlef Ziegert
Yvonne Ruocco