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Traces to Nowhere: The Conductor Carlos Kleiber

2010 · 72 min

A quiet, melancholy portrait of a brilliant, elusive artist, moving between reverence and sadness as colleagues recall a haunted perfectionist.

Directed by
Eric Schulz
Genres
Documentary, Music
Starring
Carlos Kleiber, Brigitte Fassbaender, Otto Schenk
Overview
A documentary about the life and career of the conductor Carlos Kleiber. Featuring interviews with Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Manfred Honeck, Michael Gielen, and others. On the 11th July 2004 Carlos Kleiber got into his car and drove from Munich, via the Alps, to his holiday home in the remote Slovenian village of Konjsica. There he wrote a final letter to a friend in which he bid farewell to the world. A short time later the conductor, increasingly plagued by illness and suffering, was found dead.

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Directed by
Eric Schulz
Genres
Documentary, Music
Starring
Carlos Kleiber, Brigitte Fassbaender, Otto Schenk
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • isolation
  • obsession
  • death
  • identity
Places
  • countryside
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Action0
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
documentary, music
Directed by
Eric Schulz
Starring
Carlos Kleiber, Brigitte Fassbaender, Otto Schenk, Plácido Domingo, Michael Gielen, Veronika Kleiber
Runtime
72 min
Country
Austria
Languages
German

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