Helicopter String Quartet
Helicopter String Quartet

Movie·1996·1h 21m

Helicopter String Quartet

Country

Netherlands

Language

German

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The Story

Original title: Helikopter Streichquartett

One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in the clouds, with each of a quartet’s members tucked inside his own chopper, communicating through headsets, stringing away in sync to the rotor-blade motors. He immediately set forth to make that dream a reality. In 1995, Dutch film director Scheffer followed Stockhausen in the days leading up to the premiere performance of his Helicopter String Quartet in Amsterdam. The resulting film offers a rare glimpse of Stockhausen as he patiently dictates every agonizingly detailed measure to the Arditti Quartet.

Producer

Frank Scheffer, Ton Van Der Lee

Cinematography

René van der Eijk

Editor

Jan Wouter van Reijen

Themes

composerclassical musicavant-garde

Production House

Allegri Film

Audience Score

60%

4 votes

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Cast

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Himself

Irvine Arditti

Self

Graeme Jennings

Self

Garth Knox

Self

Rohan de Saram

Self

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Crew

Frank Scheffer

Frank Scheffer

Director, Producer, Writer

Ton Van Der Lee

Producer

René van der Eijk

Director of Photography

Roelf-Jan Wentholt

Director of Photography

Jan Wouter van Reijen

Editor

Joost van Gelder

Director of Photography

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