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Magic Flute

2001-06-06 xx 10m
Documentary
“As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling” - thus said Mozart about death. Mozart died in 1791 and was buried in a mass grave, as standard at the time in Vienna for a person of his social and financial situation. In 2000, 452 of Riga’s deceased — people without relatives, the homeless and the unidentified — were buried at the Jaunciems cemetery. But this film is not about death: it's about Mozart, The Magic Flute, Riga, and love. A short commissioned for the Latvian exhibition at Venice Biennale.

Director

Viesturs Kairišs

Writer

Viesturs Kairišs

Writer

Ilmārs Blumbergs

Art Direction

Ilmārs Blumbergs

Director of Photography

Agris Birzulis

Director of Photography

Jānis Eglītis

mozart burial ground burial

Status

Released

Countries

  • Latvia

Companies

  • Kaupo Filma