The Underground Orchestra (Not Rated)

The Appalachian Summer Festival Hosts:

The Underground Orchestra
Running time: 1 hr. 48 min.
Release date: 1999

THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA is a glorious documentary profile of musicians who play on the sidewalks of Paris and in the Metro. Filmmaker Heddy Honigmann (METAL AND MELANCHOLY and O AMOR NATURAL), illuminates the lives and music of a ragtag group of international bohemians: an Argentine pianist, Romanian father and son violinists, a Venezuelan harpist, and singers from Mali and Vietnam. All are united by their experiences with political repression, and by a luminous spirit and boundless courage that led them to flee any number of horrendous situations throughout the world.
Finding refuge in Paris, music becomes their economic lifeline, but as this film makes movingly clear, it is also a shining metaphor for their will to survive.

Awards: 1998 Best Film, Dutch Film Critics (KNF-Prize) Best Ethnographic Documentary, 1998 Festival dei Popoli (Italy) SCAM Award, 1998 Cinéma du Réel (Paris)



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