A miners’ wind orchestra from Slovenia goes on tour to a small Austrian town to perform at the Wind Orchestra Festival in the parade section.
Rollicking members of a brass band are on their way to a small Austrian town to perform there. Through the problems of select protagonists, the film follows them as they sing and frolic through their tour, while observing their wives back home and their feelings about their husbands’ carefree ways. The entire tour experience in five stories, along with its implications for all those involved.
| Director | Matevž Luzar |
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| Cast | Gregor Zorc, Gregor Čušin, Jernej Kogovšek |
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Premiere
03.11.2021 / Film Festival Cottbus, International competition, Cottbus, Germany
Alternative title
Orchestra (English)
Production countries
Slovenia
Languages
Slovenian, English, German
Technical data
Aspect ratio
1,85:1
Duration and length
111'
Colour
Black and white
Screening formats
digital DCP
Filming locations
Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia
Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
Trbovlje, Slovenia
Orchestra is my most personal feature film because the story revolves around the people and orchestra from my hometown. For years, I would travel with the exact orchestra you can see in the film as an
Orchestra is my most personal feature film because the story revolves around the people and orchestra from my hometown. For years, I would travel with the exact orchestra you can see in the film as an observer. This film is not a documentary, but rather a fiction film with a real-life orchestra. As a filmmaker, I wanted to capture the atmosphere of an orchestra on tour: I wanted to show the feeling of freedom, partying, and days of careless fun as well as explore all the aspects of a band tour. How the members of the orchestra see it. How the Austrian hosts see it. And how the wives back home experience it. In Orchestra, I was most interested in the culture clash between two nations and the generational clash within the orchestra. Real-life events usually involve several perspectives but merely a single truth, so I wanted to explore this in Orchestra. The film is in black and white, but it is not ʻblack in whiteʼ as far as the feeling is concerned. It has all the colours of the bittersweet real life.