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PIANOMANIA
Scene from "Pianomania" (photo © Robert Cibis)
Pianomania takes the viewer along on a humorous journey into the secret world of sounds, and accompanies Stefan Knuepfer at his unusual job with world famous pianists like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder and Pierre-Laurent Aimand. To find the right instrument with the necessary qualities, compatible with the vision of the virtuoso, to tune it to perfection and finally to get it on the stage, needs nerves of steel, boundless passion, and the extraordinary competence in translating words into sounds.
Lilian Franck has been producing and directing films for the international market for the past ten years. In 2003, she and Robert Cibis received the German-French journalists’ \"Next Generation\" prize. Their documentary film Human Capital was sold in five countries. Pianomania is her second feature length cinema film, after Jesus Loves You. She studied at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, the Grande Ecole Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Paris, and within the framework of the Discovery Campus Masterschool.
Robert Cibis is a producer and director of documentary and theatrical films. He was awarded the Ekotopfilm 2007 prize for his two-part documentary film Disgustingly Healthy, together with Michaela Kirst. Pianomania is his second feature length documentary. He studied European Film Production in the Masterclass of the German-French Film Academy at the Femis in Paris and at the Film Academy in Baden-Wuerttemberg after having previously studied the Art and Science of Film in Rome and receiving a Master’s degree at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
Genre Music
Category Documentary
Year of Production 2009
Directors Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck
Director of Photography Jerzy Palacz
Editor Michelle Barbin
Cast Alfred Brendel, Lang Lang, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Stefan Knuepfer
Producer Robert Cibis
Co-Producers Vincent Lucassen, Ebba Sinzinger
Production Company Oval Filmemacher/Berlin, in co-production with WILDart FILM/Vienna
Length 93 min
Original Version German & English
Subtitled Versions English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish
Sound Technology Dolby SRD
Festivals Max Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken 2009, Hof 2009, DOK Leipzig 2009, Diagonale Graz 2009, Cork 2009, Locarno 2009, Zurich 2009, Valladolid 2009, Sheffield 2009, Goeteborg 2010, Berlin 2010, Jameson Dublin 2010, Zagrebdox 2010, Sofia 2010, Hong Kong 2010, Macau 2010, BAFICI Buenos Aires 2010, St. Paul Minneapolis 2010, San Francisco 2010, DOK.Fest Munich 2010, Planet Doc Review 2010, Melbourne 2010, New Zealand International Film Festival 2010, Jecheon International Music & Film Festival 2010, San Francisco 2010, Moscow 2010, Ghent 2010, Golden Horse Taipei 2010
Awards Critics' Week Award Locarno 2009, Best Editing/Documentary Film Graz 2009, Main Award & Audience Award Luenen 2009, Audience Award Wuerzburg 2010, Honorary Jury Award Oslo 2010, German Film Award 2011 (Best Sound Design)
With backing from MEDIA Development, Eurimages, Oesterreichisches Filminstitut, Filmfond Wien, Cinestyria, ORF, Institut fuer Elektroakustik der Universitaet Wien, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film
World Sales (please contact)
Oval Filmemacher GbR
Robert Cibis, Dorota Lech
Rykestrasse 17
10405 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-61 62 48 30
fax +49-30-61 62 48 31
robert@oval-film.com
http://www.oval-film.com
Category Documentary
Year of Production 2009
Directors Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck
Director of Photography Jerzy Palacz
Editor Michelle Barbin
Cast Alfred Brendel, Lang Lang, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Stefan Knuepfer
Producer Robert Cibis
Co-Producers Vincent Lucassen, Ebba Sinzinger
Production Company Oval Filmemacher/Berlin, in co-production with WILDart FILM/Vienna
Length 93 min
Original Version German & English
Subtitled Versions English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish
Sound Technology Dolby SRD
Festivals Max Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken 2009, Hof 2009, DOK Leipzig 2009, Diagonale Graz 2009, Cork 2009, Locarno 2009, Zurich 2009, Valladolid 2009, Sheffield 2009, Goeteborg 2010, Berlin 2010, Jameson Dublin 2010, Zagrebdox 2010, Sofia 2010, Hong Kong 2010, Macau 2010, BAFICI Buenos Aires 2010, St. Paul Minneapolis 2010, San Francisco 2010, DOK.Fest Munich 2010, Planet Doc Review 2010, Melbourne 2010, New Zealand International Film Festival 2010, Jecheon International Music & Film Festival 2010, San Francisco 2010, Moscow 2010, Ghent 2010, Golden Horse Taipei 2010
Awards Critics' Week Award Locarno 2009, Best Editing/Documentary Film Graz 2009, Main Award & Audience Award Luenen 2009, Audience Award Wuerzburg 2010, Honorary Jury Award Oslo 2010, German Film Award 2011 (Best Sound Design)
With backing from MEDIA Development, Eurimages, Oesterreichisches Filminstitut, Filmfond Wien, Cinestyria, ORF, Institut fuer Elektroakustik der Universitaet Wien, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film
World Sales (please contact)
Oval Filmemacher GbR
Robert Cibis, Dorota Lech
Rykestrasse 17
10405 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-61 62 48 30
fax +49-30-61 62 48 31
robert@oval-film.com
http://www.oval-film.com
