The great composer Arvo Pärt at work, whilst the artists who perform his music and are inspired by it illustrate the different aspects of the phenomenon the man is.
He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at home in the forests of Estonia and generates therewith - perhaps involuntarily - the impression of a recluse, which is attributed to him again and...
Kips and the Forest Sage's helicopter breaks down in a thunderstorm, but fortunately, the distressed fall to a desert island. Kips learns which forest gifts to use for survival – some are suitable for cooking, others become material for clothes and blankets. With the disease, medicinal herbs...
The story takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1987. The father has defected to England and the mother and her son are planning to leave the country to reunite with him. The film is told through the eyes of the fourteen year old boy, his rankled look without the veneer of experience and initiation in...
A story about three friends—a red, yellow, and blue colored pencil—and a quarrelsome black pencil stub whose mischief causes frustration for the others.
The Forest Sage shows Kips the operator what are the flowers and already ripened fruits of our best-known wild berries. The Forest Sage teaches to recognize berries and distinguish poisonous from edible ones. However, in the end, the berries go into a fierce argument among themselves, which of them...
The documentary "Childhood Land Siberia" continues the series of films about the deportations to Siberia, commited by the Soviet Union as part of an ethnic cleansing in its occupied lands in 1941. Some of the surviving children who were deported, now seniors, wish to visit the lands of their...
A Scientist-physicist created a living atom that here ran on will. Without control he brings many destructions, though follows kind intentions. But a scientist eventually compels him to work on a benefit to the people.
The documentary depicts Antarctica as an aesthetic phenomenon - it is a land of eternal silence and stillness; during its short summer the continent reveals its most beautiful treasures. Filmed during the 13th Soviet Antarctic expedition from November 1968 until May 1969.
Before embarking on a long scientific expedition to the Pacific, Juan takes his girlfriend Gala to the town where he spent his childhood. During the visit, the couple talk about future plans and deep differences emerge. Five months later, when John returns home, he discovers that his life is about...
Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning
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Arvo Pärt is regarded as one of the most original avant-garde composers. This documentary shows Pärt as a deeply spiritual man whose work is bound up with his religious beliefs. Both he and his music defy classification, and he is determined to preserve his aura of mystery.
