Choir of the Prisoners

The film is based on a scene in Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. The inmates of the Seville prison are kept in dark cells without daylight. Now, for the first time after years, they are allowed to see the sun. Light as a metaphor for freedom.

• Release date
• February 9, 2004
• Runtime
• 6 min
• Director
• Raimund Krumme

Cast

Matthew Burton

S

Sabine Hertling