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Symphonia Colonialis


SYMPHONIA COLONIALIS

Brazilian Classical Music

scene from the film SYMPHONIA COLONIALISThe film is about the Classical Brazilian music of the Minas Gerais province during the 18th and 19th centuries. It narrates the story of a slave boy at the end of the 18th century who gains his freedom by means of his extraordinary musical talent and goes on to become a famous composer, Antonio Francisco da Cunha.


At the same time, the film tells us about the music today in São João del Rei, a little town in Minas Gerais, focusing on the Orquestra Ribeiro Bastos, the only surviving mulatto orchestra whose origins date back 250 years.

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BRAZIL, 60', 16mm, colour
Production: Hessicher Rundfunk, Frankfurt / Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden / Brintrup-Filmproduktion, Rome

CAST Elder Geraldo da Silva Santos, Luciano Mauricio, Ivan Capua, Cynara Bruno, Luiz Antonio Rodrigues, Luiz d'Angelo Pugliese, José Maria Neves, Valdir Raimundo das Chagas, Lucia Onofre, Marilane Aparecida dos Santos, Ivan Marclino de Sousa u.a.
MUSIC Pe.João de Deus de Castro Lobo, José Joaquim Emérico Lobo de Mesquita, Ignácio Parreiras Neves, Marcos Coelho Neto, Pe. José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Antonio dos Santos Cunha, Pe. José Maria Xavier, Giovanni Paisiello
CAMERA Luigi Verga
ASSISTENT Eva Piccoli
SOUND Hubrecht Nijhuis
AUDIO MIX Fausto Ancillai
SCENOGRAPHY Luiz Antonio Rodrigues
COSTUMES Mamélia Dornelles, Silvana Fusacchia
BEST BOY Joaquim Waldyr dal Moro
LOCATION MANAGER Suely Campos Franco
LIGHT Adalberto Luiz Paduin, Antonio Carlos Gomes
EDITORS Graziana Quintalti, Livia Ravá
WRITTEN BY Georg Brintrup, Fábio de Araújo
DIRECTED BY Georg Brintrup
TV PRODUCERS Swantje Ehrentreich, Dietrich Mack
PRODUCTION Brintrup-Filmproduktion, HR, SWF
FIRST BROADCAST S3 on January 10th.1991
REPLAYS S 3 am 30.4.1992, HR 3 am 30.8.1992, HR 3 am 12.3.1995
FESTIVALS Mostra Internaçional De Cinéma, São Paulo 1991
gallery with stills from the film