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Magic Flute

Magic Flute

2001 10min XX

“As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling” - thus said Mozart about death. Mozart died in 1791 and was buried in a mass grave, as standard at the time in Vienna for a person of his social and financial situation. In 2000, 452 of Riga’s deceased — people without relatives, the homeless and the unidentified — were buried at the Jaunciems cemetery. But this film is not about death: it's about Mozart, The Magic Flute, Riga, and love. A short commissioned for the Latvian exhibition at Venice Biennale.

director: Viesturs Kairišs

external: IMDb

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Credits

Viesturs Kairišs

Viesturs Kairišs

Director

Viesturs Kairišs

Viesturs Kairišs

Writer

Ilmārs Blumbergs

Ilmārs Blumbergs

Writer

Ilmārs Blumbergs

Ilmārs Blumbergs

Art Direction

Agris Birzulis

Agris Birzulis

Director of Photography

Jānis Eglītis

Jānis Eglītis

Director of Photography

Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.

Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.

Director of Photography

Anrijs Krenbergs

Anrijs Krenbergs

Sound Director

Normunds Kļaviņš

Normunds Kļaviņš

Sound Director

Armands Blumbergs

Armands Blumbergs

Editor

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