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- A genuine première and, over and above that, starring the biggest motion picture composer of the present day: Ennio Morricone. Morricone is well-known to moviegoers his soundtracks are invariably warmly melodic and superbly suited to the films they grace.
- Life story of the composer Dimitri Shostakovich from the perspective of a director making a film about Shostakovich. This director is portrayed by Armin Mueller-Stahl.
- Former artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo, former director of the Conservatoire San Pietro a Majella, ethnomusicologist, mythologist, playwright, composer, director and reinventor of music theatre... Roberto De Simone, born in Naples in 1933, is an encyclopaedic personality, a phenomenon, of which the public is often aware of only a partial aspect. Roberto De Simone refers as much to the classical and folk culture of Naples and Campania as to his eclecticism as a contemporary artist. 1976, in the wake of his world-famous group 'Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare', "La gatta Cenerentola" is his first great stage work. It achieved immense success, and shortly thereafter gained a legendary reputation. Since then Roberto De Simone has pursued his creative career through the genres. This film is a ritual journey into the spiritual topography of Roberto De Simone, featuring the theatre and music ensemble Media Aetas. Various layers are intertwined, ranging from the music theatre to the fantastic, magical and religious tangle of a traditional world, which is dying out, and from the unsettling setting of an ex-psychiatric clinic to some barely known facets of Neapolitan history.
- Ross Daly - The Circle at the Crossroads Ross Daly is one of the most outstanding protagonists of oriental music styles. Born in England in 1952, being Irish, he came under the spell of oriental modal music in the 60s in San Francisco. He travelled Central Asia and the Near and Middle East, until he was lured to the Greek island of Crete by its main instrument, the lyre. Ross Daly has now been in Greece for 24 years. Today he lives in Athens where he leads the "Lavirinthos" ("labyrinth") music workshop. A multi-instrumentalist of rare talent, he describes himself as a composer of "contemporary modal music". The particular features of modal music, its instruments, and its spiritual dimension, the clash of tradition and individuality, the island of Crete, and "Lavirinthos". These focal points of Daly's development are featured along a leitmotiv, given to the film by an old Cretan legend, namely the story of the crossroads.