The Silence Before Bach
2007 · 102 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 711 VOTES · DIR. Pere Portabella
Overview
This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.
Dialogue Timeline — 376 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:45 Aria mit verschiedenen Veranderungen. Goldberg Variations (BWV 988)
00:11:51 We others, we have a good reputation.
00:12:39 You have to find something to let off steam ...
00:13:22 When not ... playing and singing.
00:14:55 I have no idea how things work in your world.
00:22:34 in the notes that I have delivered.
00:24:41 Make it known to our Count that his gift
00:30:47 They returned again in Leipzig
00:32:05 of local musicians
00:33:42 will recognize some of the most 'delicious
00:34:48 Artists such as Schiller, Goethe, Mozart, Weber and Wagner
00:42:03 An order accurate and decisive.
00:49:00 If the meat is cooking over low heat
00:50:02 would be worse than Flood for my masters.
00:54:52 Johann Sebastian Bach
00:57:04 Jesu, meine Fraud - Die Motetten (BWV 227) Cast: Thomanechor Leipzig Director: George C. Biller
01:08:43 Why 'no ...
01:09:36 where the 'Musical Offering and The well-tempered Clavier
01:10:51 I remember perfectly the description of Levi ...
01:12:32 Here's the story.
01:13:17 It 's not a balcony?
01:19:55 and 'still very active, as you see ...
01:26:48 But working with spiritual texts
01:27:45 - Come with me. - With pleasure. Thank you.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed376
Dialogue density3.7 lines / min
First line00:01:45
Final line01:27:45
Production Record
DirectorPere Portabella
LanguageCA
IMDb votes711