Die Thomaner
Just a day before the concert with the Bach Cantatas, the Pharos Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Zypern present the documentary Die Thomaner – A year in the life of the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig by Paul Smaczny and Günter Atteln. The screening will take place at the Shoe Factory, Nicosia at 8:00pm and Entrance is free.
“A sensitive, magnificent documentary that makes the hair on your neck stand on end.” Hamburger Abendblatt
Founded in 1212, the St. Thomas Choir Leipzig is one of the most famous and prestigious boys’ choirs in the world. This documentary accompanies “Die Thomaner”, aged between 9-18 years old, over a period of one year. Their unique world, from motets to boarding school and the football pitch, is distinguished by success, pressure to perform, doubt, pride, homesickness and friendship. The film charts the breadth of the boys’ experience from the classroom to travelling on tour to South America.
The film was a box office hit in Germany last year, as it depicts a choir, which has preserved its tradition through the centuries and a number of social and political upheavals, and celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2012.
The film will be followed by a concert with J.S. Bach’s Cantatas on the following day, 23 April 2013, at Castelliotissa Hall in Nicosia, 8:30pm. Bach served as Cantor of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig for 27 years, and incidentally the grandfather of the director and organist of tomorrow’s concert, Johannes Lang, served as Cantor of the Choir between 1939 and 1956!
Direction: Paul Smaczny, Günter Atteln
Duration: 113 min
Year / Country of Origin: 2012, Germany
Language: German with English Subtitles
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