Nightingales in Berlin

Nightingales in Berlin (2019) is a documentary film directed by Ville Tanttu.

This film tells the story of David Rothenberg’s efforts to gather together an international band of musicians to cross the species line and make music live with nightingales. Because of its spacious parks and the large number of enthusiastically singing birds, Berlin is the best city to make music with nightingales. Almost everything one plays to a nightingale will encourage him to sing more. These encounters becomes a direct window into the unknown, a touch of communication with a being with whom we cannot speak. The play of pure tones jarring against click and buzz, it all becomes not a code but a groove, an amphitheater of rhythms in which we strive to find a place.

Cast

David Rothenberg

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Cymin Samawatie

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Lembe Lokk

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Korhan Erel

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Benedicte Maurseth

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Wassim Mukdad

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Sanna Salmenkallio

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Dietmar Todt

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Tina Roeske

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