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BACH
AT THE PAGODA
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With Dr. Beat
"Beatocello" Richner
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- A
Film Produced and directed by
- Georges
Gachot
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- Production
Year 1996
- Length
61 min., color
- Format,
Digital Betacam, 16/9
- Version:
English, German, Swiss German, French,
Italian
- Shooted
in Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
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- Synopsis
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- (English)
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- In
the midst of the Cambodian countryside, not
far from Phnom Penh's a pagoda, from which
one can hear the sound of a cello playing
music by J.S.Bach. The "culture shock" of
hearing such eminently European music in such
an unmistakably Asian setting is all the
greater when it turns out that the performer
is a Swiss pediatrician, Beat Richner, a man
who has given up everything in order to care
for Cambodia's sick children. Alone with his
cello in this place of worship in the depths
of Asia, Dr. Richner addresses an appeal to
the entire world. Cambodia needs help. Since
1991 he has built two hospitals, and each day
these are able to assist thousands of
destitute children. This encounter with an
unusual physician who uses his musical gifts
to collect money for his own humanitarian
projects, is also an opportunity for
discovering the Cambodia of today, a nation
that is once again trying to raise its head,
with some difficulty.
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- (Deutsch)
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- "Bach
at the Pagoda" ist ein Dokumentarfilm
über den bekannten Schweizer Kinderarzt
Dr. Beat Richner und die von ihm aufgebauten
Kinderkrankenhäuser "Kantha Bopha I
& II" in Kambodscha. Der Film gibt einen
bewegenden Einblick in das Schaffen Beat
Richners dem die Musik von Johann S. Bach als
Inspirationsquelle dient. Er zeichnet auch
ein Bild davon, wie es heute im Land der
Khmer nach 30 Jahren Krieg und Isolation
wirklich ausschaut.
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- (Français)
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- "Bach
at the Pagoda" est un film documentaire sur
le pédiatre suisse Beat Richner et ces
deux hôpitaux "Kantha Bopha I & II"
au Cambodge. Il nous fait découvrir
l'oeuvre humanitaire du médecin et
sont rapport à la musique de Jean
Sébastien Bach qu'il utilise comme
source d'inspiration. Le film largement
illustré d'images du Cambodge, nous
permettra également de comprendre sa
situation actuelle et comment, après
30 ans de guerre et d'isolement, le pays des
Khmers tente de redresser la
tête.
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- Broadcasted
on Television
- ZDF,
9.10.97
- TSR,
6.1.1998
- "24
hours Bach"
- SF
DRS, 25.12.1997
- TSI,
27.10.1997
- Danemark
TV
- ORF
18.5.1998
- La
cinquième
- Planete
- Muzzik
- Mezzo
- SVT
1 (Sweeden)
- Media
Park , Spain
- 3
Sat, 26.12.1997
- rt
- Taiwan,
Tzu chi tv
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- Festivals
& Cinema
- Jerusalem,
cinémathèque 28 April
2007
- Phnom
Penh, Southeast Asian Biennal Film Festival, March
'97
- Gstaad,
Film Festival Cinémusic, '98
- Nyon,
Visions du Reel '98, Festival international du
cinéma documentaire, section "Market
screenings"
- San
Remo (Italie), Music & Film
Fest
- Santa
Barbara, CA (California, USA), Santa Barbara Film
Festival, March 1999
- Wine
Country film festival (US), August 1,
1999
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- Credits
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Music
cue sheet
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- Special
thanks
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- Produced
& Directed by Georges Gachot
- Dirtector
of photograpy David Gopsill
- Sound
& music recording Dieter Meyer
- Editor
Ruth Schläpfer
- Sound
mix, Postproduction Digiton,
Jürg von Allmen
- Studio
Masé, Denis Séchaud
- On-line
editor Cédric Rossel
- German
translation Marlise Gachot
- French
translation Henri-Daniel Wibaut
- speakers:
Nicolas Rinuy / François Germond /Ludwig
Schütze
- Music
producer Musikvertrieb AG Zürich
- Christoph
Lehmann
- Translator
Bun yay Kounkor
- Electrician
So Sokhom
- Logistic
Chek sopheap
- Engineer
Van Narith
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- J.
S. BACH
- Suite
Nr.1, Préludium & Menuet
- Suite
Nr.2, Preludium & Sarabande
- Suite
Nr.3, Allemande
- Suite
Nr.5, Sarabande
- BEAT
"BEATOCELLO" RICHNER
- "Doctor
PC"
- "Das
Lied vom Tröpfli"
- KOL
NIDREY, Jewish melody
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- SPANISH
POPULAR SONG "Cant del Ocells"
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- Dr.
med. Peter Studer
- Laurent
Gross
- Dr.
med. Denis Laurent
- All
the staff of Kantha Bopha I & II
- Rose-Marie
Schneider
- Simone
Schneider
- Swissair,
Ms. Regula Laux
- Actua
films, Geneva
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