A journey through the life and music of Berlin musician and oldest silent film pianist alive: Willy Sommerfeld. Sommerfeld, who was 100 years old during the film's production and involved in the world of movies when cinema was born. "The film ist so beautiful and intelligent! The highlight from the Berlin Film Festival! (Dan and Toby Talbot, The New Yorker) He's treated like a rock star by audiences young and old, adored by film lovers and housewives alike, venerated by scholars and punks: Willy Sommerfeld, born in 1904, is a silent movie pianist—the last of his kind, a living legend with a musical memory reaching back more than a century. He first performed in the Roaring Twenties.
A journey through the life and music of Berlin musician and oldest silent film pianist alive: Willy Sommerfeld.
Sommerfeld, who was 100 years old during the film's production and involved in the world of movies when cinema was born. "The film ist so beautiful and intelligent! The highlight from the Berlin Film Festival! (Dan and Toby Talbot, The New Yorker)
He's treated like a rock star by audiences young and old, adored by film lovers and housewives alike, venerated by scholars and punks: Willy Sommerfeld, born in 1904, is a silent movie pianist—the last of his kind, a living legend with a musical memory reaching back more than a century. He first performed in the Roaring Twenties.