throughout the year in his hometown of ball also coming up today. we have an exclusive interview with one of the great german film director. who receive a lifetime achievement award at the european film awards this week. box we begin with beethoven 2020 which was launched in the western german city bomb all mines day in advance of a spectacular year of concert 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 now d.w. is heavily involved in the celebrations i'll be talking about that after the launch of a special d.w. classical music you tube channel with my colleague aging kennedy off to this.

it's not dropping roland it's not pop music but it's very musical that is so energetic and so full of emotions he's a living example if you want so for human creativity in the face of adversity the talk is of beethoven than 250 years on from his birth the whole world is celebrating his musical genius. vello is 1st in the line of well wishers d.w. unveiled its extensive multimedia program for the beethoven year in the great composers birthplace of paul on. the edge of the. bed will kick off with a 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 film called the sound of nature focuses on the pastoral symphony beethoven's on marsh to night 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 word this film had its premiere on world environment day. young it often is all about discovering that the arts needs to reflect a new kind of society that emerged as executor. 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 berlin philharmonic 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 to he didn't like that. new perspectives from g.w. in beethoven you know 2020. college you go drink out of the joins me now a trinity of treats. 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 credits this parenthesis of course something of a visionary and rebel in the beethoven know what i'm self he says he would use the night to show an alien point to make human civilization so special and he has a very emotional take on it as we can hear let's take a listen. and since and his orchestra will perform all of beethoven's symphonies over the course of bites hovan year and arch see the documentary ourselves are great with you by the way it's wonderful. it's going to be on d.w.

on the 17th of december which is actually the official start of the by year also 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. classical music synonymous with cast cool music by brahms. the list is endless and on the other hand you've got d w of award winning documentary 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 going to see willis 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 female conductors i've actually seen this is 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 along being out and about and the music fest braman she met up with the children percussionist marching grouping and after finding out a bit about. musical methods and instrumentation alone drew was even brave enough to have a go herself so here is an exclusive musical oh well. 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 available there that steve is classical music you tube channel adrian kennedy as always thanks very much. then i have saw has written and directed over 70 feature films and documentaries from the hollywood he created milestones of new german cinema in the seventy's and eighty's with fitz corralled nosferatu so and has a polish olfa filming and some of us challenging in inhospitable places all tough now he's getting a lifetime achievement award at the european film awards this weekend oh man hans christophe on box got an exclusive interview with him before hand. i was going to have talks 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. who. always knew i was the the others 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 a few mistakes that. help so revolutionized german post-war films and with his more than 70 productions he's also broaden their horizons of global sense of his work cannot be assigned to one single genre and he considers himself neither a european nor a german filmmaker. i think i belong to a more regional category that is very unfair and the opulence of life that's why i sometimes say big the 2nd of the very out would have been the only other person who

could have made fitzcarraldo could in. german actor clothes 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 hauled over a mountain to do it then a household 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 bad lieutenant hats only stays true to himself. up to this. bitter tenants of barry and review the soviets who made such wild in iraq movie while to the water of this table that took the. fast it's really intense. surely. what

for souls still dancing. worked in front of the camera opposite tom cruise as the villain in jack reacher. i don't believe he did. at least. not. have 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 the 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 for an award for lifetime achievement how does

a few for instance up. first of all i find it go to ask 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 had saw this certainly not one to rest on his laurels spans at any rate i 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 light festivals i leave you with pictures from the french city of. spectacular festival of lights this year which is just stars and continues over the weekend thanks for watching.

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