Films by Thiemo Hehl

Germany 2010, 92 min
by Vadim Jendreyko

Singing in endless hallways. Behind the shelf with the wigs, the blood-filled refrigerator, a flock of elves chirp through the canteen, drums, trumpets, and the ubiquitous loudspeaker voices. Murmurings, big words, absurd dialogues, and every gesture counts.Underneath, down by the sewage system, enormous lifting equipment, a jubilant choir floats to the surface: THE SINGING CITY. The film uses Calixto Bieito’s production of Parsifal in Stuttgart as a pretext for exploring the complex universe of