we have an exclusive interview with one of the great german film directors. will receive a lifetime achievement award at the european film awards this weekend. box we begin with 2020 which was launched in the western german city bomb day in advance of a spectacular year of exhibitions on the events all about one of the greatest classical composers of all time. was beethoven's birthplace and where he spent the 1st 20 years of his life d.-w. is heavily involved in the celebrations i'll be talking about that and the launch of a special d.w. classical music you tube channel with my colleague aging kennedy after this. it's not dropping roland it's not pop music but it's very music that is so

energetic and so full of emotions he's a living example of his one so for human creativity in the face of adversity the talk is of beethoven good figure than 250 years on from his birth the whole world is celebrating his musical genius. of elo is 1st in the line of well wishers t w unveiled its extensive multimedia program for the beethoven year in the great composers birthplace of paul on. you tube. it will kick off with the focus on his most famous composition beethoven's 9th symphony for the world looks at a musical masterpiece that has transcended all borders. the 2 of them and to w.

we stand for freedom and this is something which brought us together and also that we have a headquarter in bonn and beethoven was born in bonn so i think it's a good match. another g w film called the sound of nature focuses on the pastoral symphony beethoven's on march tonight shot the film visits musicians on 5 continents composing music dealing with environmental issues. is that. tool if we use it properly we contains the world this film had its premiere on world environment day. the younger it often is all about discovering that the art needs to reflect a new kind of society that emerges. exactly at the time when pizza was born with the french revolution a world without beethoven is the 3rd major d.w. production sarah willis horn player with but in film one that examines the legacy

of the musical revolutionary and asked where would we be without the great composer of us jazz great wynton marsalis is one of the international stars she told. me didn't like. i love the. radio. new perspectives from g.w. in beethoven year 2020. college you go drink out of the joins me now a trinity of treats that. there's lots more robert do you have a personal favorite difficult to pick out just one but for me beethoven's 9th symphony for the world is a very intriguing project by the award winning documentary filmmaker christian berger our esteemed colleague probe the special meaning of beethoven's 9th as you know the choral symphony that incorporates a version of schiller's ode to joy

a plea for freedom and peace and one of the protagonists in this documentary is greek russian conducted teodor credit suisse corrent sister of course something of a visionary and revel in the beethoven moment to myself he says he would use the 9th to show an avian reports make human civilisation so special and he has a very emotional take on it as we can hear it think listen. and to it since and his orchestra will perform all of beethoven symphonies over the course of bytes hovan year and see the document runs are great review by the way it's wonderful and it's going to be on d.w. on the 17th of december which is actually the official start of the year also did

every found another way to celebrate the. yes we have a very important announcement now we've launched a new you tube channel d.w. classical music this is going to have a whole range of fantastic content forget james bond for the moment forget the new james bond trailer the most important trailer today is this one. here's the deal germany on the one hand hold. pascual music seen none of this with classical music. brahms. the list is endless and on the other hand you've got d w of. documentaries featuring all the classical stars and so this was a perfect match. a match made in heaven we're going to have plenty of stars we're going to have some familiar faces and apps we'll use of. music.

power of music a maestra a whole load of new content interviews and behind the scenes features and you mentioned a lot of the power of one of the great up and coming family conductors i've actually seen the already a load of new stuff being loaded on to the channel today that's fine and as an example of the kind of thing that you can see on the channel. being out and about and at the music fest braman she met up with the children percussionist martin grouping and after finding out a bit about. musical methods and instrumentation along brewer was even brave enough to have a go so here is an exclusive musical. they'll have to watch all the you tube channel which is a treasure trove of classical music fans are already as there will be other

documentaries uploaded on to the channel bit by bit by next year you won't be able to tear yourself away from the jobs available there that steve jobs is classical music you tube channel adrian kennedy as always thanks very much. then i have stalled has written and directed over 70 feature films and documentaries from our house to hollywood he created milestones of new german cinema in the seventy's and eighty's with fitz corralled nuts for. and has a polish old for filming and some of us challenging in inhospitable places on us now he's getting a lifetime achievement award at the european film awards this weekend our man hans christophe on box got an exclusive interview with him before. then i had sex films are ambitious sometimes disconcerting and always surprising and he's made them in some of the farthest corners of the world but we met up with him in his

hometown of munich where at the age of 15 he decided to become a filmmaker. always knew i was on the other hand because i didn't know much about film and hadn't seen many movies i also knew that i would have to invent cinema myself and. that. health so revolutionized german post-war film and with his more than 70 productions he's also broaden their horizons of global center his work cannot be assigned to one single genre and he considers himself neither a european nor a german filmmaker. and. i think i'm going to reach no category that is very unfair and the populace of life i think that's why i sometimes say the 2nd of the very out what have been the only other person who could have made fitzcarraldo couldn't.

german actor close kinski plays fitzcarraldo the film is the story of a madman who's obsessed with building an opera house in the middle of the jungle and has a ship hold over a mountain to do it again to help so it made film history with these iconic images . 20 years ago he moved to los angeles and he's worked with some of hollywood's biggest stars but whether it's rescue dawn or a bad lieutenant hat song always stays true to himself. up to this hour. after 10 and disappear very unreal there's some of us who made such wild movie wild to the wire of the table at the. toba fast it's really intense. and. surely. what 4 souls still dancing.

worked in front of the camera opposite tom cruise as the villain in jack reacher. i don't believe he did. that. when so many other stick knocked. out so it's documentaries are spectacular and popular especially among a younger audience. on his t.v. show on death row he delves into the depths of the human soul along with death row inmates. for grizzly man he followed in the footsteps of a man who went off into the wild to live among bears and ended up being eaten by them. more than 10 years now you have been getting awards for your life's work this time it's a european film award for lifetime achievement how does a few for instance up. first of all i find it protests for

a full length films last year other people need 6 years to do that they should give me these awards when i haven't made a movie in 10 years and need to be rolled on to the stage in a wheelchair. then i have so there's certainly not one to rest on his laurels found at any rate hope he'll be making his iconic classic films for many years to come. finally it's the darkest time of year here in northern europe and therefore high season for like festivals i leave you with pictures from the french city of their spectacular festival of lights this year which is just start as i continues over the weekend thanks for watching.

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