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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet & The Cello

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet & The Cello are two compilation films, combining 15 ten-minute films, unique in the history of cinema about the most universal of all subjects: time.

Each of the 15 directors has been given exactly ten minutes on the screen for their vision. With complete creative freedom, the directors bring their own personal interpretation of "time" to the screen. Using the technology of film in innovative, provocative ways, Ten Minutes Older takes in all human experience: birth, death, love, sex, the drama of the moment, history and ancient myth; and a great variety of locations all over the world. Combined together in two compilation films, their individual work gains new meaning and presents an intriguing and exciting experience for all film goers.

Werner Herzog was born in 1942 and has produced, written and directed more than forty films, published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. A selection of his films includeS: Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen, 1970), Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, 1971), Fata Morgana (1971), Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, 1972), Every Man for Himself and God Against All (Jeder fuer sich und Gott gegen alle, 1974), Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas, 1976), La Soufrière (1977), Stroszek (1977), Woyzeck (1979), Nosferatu the Vampire (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, 1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Where the Green Ants Dream (Wo die gruenen Ameisen traeumen, 1984), Cobra Verde (1988), Echoes from a Sombre Empire (Echos aus einem duesteren Reich , 1990), Scream of Stone (Schrei aus Stein, 1991), Lessons of Darkness (Lektionen in Finsternis, 1992), Bells from the Deep (Glocken aus der Tiefe, 1993), My Best Fiend (Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski, 1999), Invincible (2001), Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (short, 2002), Wheel of Time (Rad der Zeit, 2003), Grizzly Man (2005), and The Wild Blue Yonder (2005).
 
Volker Schloendorff was born in Wiesbaden in 1939. He made his debut as a film director in 1965 with Young Toerless. A selection of his films includes: Baal (1970), The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975, co-directed with Margarethe von Trotta), Fangschuss (1976), Germany in Autumn (1976, together with Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge, et al), Circle of Deceit (1981), Swann in Love (1983), Death of a Salesman (1985), A Gathering of Old Men (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Voyager (1990), The Ogre (1996), Palmetto (1998), The Legends of Rita (1999), Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine (documentary, 2001), Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002), The Ninth Day (2004), Strike (2006), and Ulzhan (2007). In 1979, his film The Tin Drum was the first film by a German director to be awarded a Golden Palm in Cannes. A year later, it was the first German film to be awarded an OSCAR for Best Foreign Language Film.
 
Wim Wenders was born in Duesseldorf in 1945. He abandoned studies in Medicine and Philosophy to become a painter, but in Paris he discovered cinema instead. He attended film school in Munich from 1967-1970, and then started to direct and produce his own films. He has received numerous international awards, including the Golden Lion (1982), the Golden Palm (1984), the European Film Award (1988), and a Silver Bear (2000). He is a professor at the Hamburg Academy of Arts, and lives partly in America, partly in Berlin. A selection of his acclaimed films includes: The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty (1971), Alice in the Cities (1973), In the Course of Time (1976), The American Friend (1977), Hammett (1982), The State of Things (1982), Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987), Until the End of the World (1991), Faraway, So Close! (1993), Lisbon Story (1994), The End of Violence (1997), Buena Vista Social Club (1998), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), The Soul of a Man (2003), Land of Plenty (2004), Don’t Come Knocking (2005), and Palermo Shooting (2008), among others.
 

Genre Art
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2002
Director Werner Herzog, Volker Schloendorff, Wim Wenders
Music by Claudio Bohórquez, Paul Englishby, Hugh Masekela
Producers Ulrich Felsberg, Nicolas McClintock, Nigel Thomas
Production Companies Matador Pictures/London, Odyssey Films/London, Road Movies Filmproduktion/Berlin
Format 35 mm, color, b&w, 1:1.85
Original Version multiple langauges
Subtitled Versions English, French
Sound Technology Dolby SRD
Festival Screenings (The Trumpet) Cannes 2002, San Sebastian 2002, Edinburg 2002, Woodstock 2002, Taipei 2002 (The Cello) Venice 2002, Toronto 2002, San Sebastian 2002, New York 2002

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