The Eurovision Song Contest (2004) (TV)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Sven Stojanovic

Release Date:

15 May 2004 (Turkey)

Genre:

Music

Plot Keywords:

Song Contest | Live Broadcast | TV Special | Song | Competition

Cast

Korhan Abay	...	Host
Meltem Cumbul	...	Host
Ruslana Lyzhicko	...	Herself - Ukrainian entry (Winner)
Zeljko Joksimovic	...	Serbian entry (2nd place)
Gokhan Özoguz	...	Turkish entry / Lead singer (4th place) (as Athena)
Sakis Rouvas	...	Greek entry (3rd place)
Hakan Özoguz	...	Turkish entry / Guitarist and back vocal (4th place) (as Athena)
Lisa Andreas	...	Cypriot entry (5th place)
Lena Philipsson	...	Swedish entry (6th place)
Anjeza Shahini	...	Albanian entry (7th place)
Maximilian Nepomuk Mutzke	...	German entry (8th place) (as Max)
Fuad Backovic	...	Bosnian entry (9th place) (as Deen)
Ramón	...	Spanish entry (10th place)
Yuliya Savicheva	...	Russian entry (11th place) (as Julia Savicheva)
Ludwig Galea	...	Maltese entry (12th place)

Country:

Turkey

Language:

English | French | Turkish | German | Serbo-Croatian | Spanish

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Abdi Ipekci Stadium, Zeytinburnu, Istanbul, Turkey

Company:

European Broadcasting Union (EBU)

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Eurovision Song Contest (2005) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Shake it

End This Farce Now

I do know that the Eurovision song contest isn't supposed to be taken seriously as a song contest otherwise the 1990s would have seen Blur , Oasis or The Verve as the UK contestants while Ireland fielded U2 with Air representing France etc . In short this contest is not supposed to be taken seriously but come on at least pretend you're voting for the song you liked best , but alas politics comes into it . All the countries of the former Yugoslavia voted for one another which can be seen as part of a healing process but be honest , do you think the ghosts of 278,000 dead Yugoslavs can be exorcised by a camp and cheesy song contest featuring more often than not Euro-trash ? Neither do I . All the Nordic countries voted for one another while Greece and Cyprus gave each other maximum points as they do every year much to the disgust of the gathered audience in Turkey . Talking of Turkey I thought their entry was probably the best on the night , a sort of ska inspired track played by an actual band , but the winner was The Ukraine which seemed to have stolen their style from that sword and sorcery show from New Zealand

A well staged and organised musical event but an event that is well past its sell by date and which should hopefully be scrapped in the near future