Films by Christian Frey

Germany 2017, 90 min
by Christian Frey, Carsten Gutschmidt

During the Leningrad Blockade the conductor Karl Eliasberg receives an unbelievable assignment: surrounded by hunger, cold, and death he must conduct Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony with his surviving orchestra. Against all odds he accomplishes the impossible: For a short moment the war is interrupted by the sounds of the ’Leningrad Symphony‘ waft through the city all the way to German trenches. It is the heroic story of an orchestra and the symbolic triumph of art over the savagery of war. Septembe

Germany 2017, 52 min
by Christian Frey

The German invasion in 1940 is the beginning of a struggle for life for the Jews in France. Still, 75% of them survive the holocaust. For the first time a film recounts the circumstances of their rescue – and the civil resistance of numerous “Silent Saviours” who made this possible.