Executive Co-Producer
Legendary conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim speaks more candidly than he has ever done before about his life and music. Told entirely through interviews with the maestro, the film starts with his earliest musical experiences as a child piano prodigy in Buenos Aires, before following his meteoric rise to fame, including his encounters with other musical giants such as Nadia Boulanger and Arthur Rubinstein, who gave the 14-year-old Daniel his first vodka and cigar! We also learn of Barenboim's move to Israel when he was a teenager, where he lived a double life as a musical genius and an ordinary schoolboy. He then talks with unusual intimacy about his relationship with cellist Jacqueline du Pre and her long battle with multiple sclerosis. The film also charts Barenboim's stellar career as an orchestral conductor, his move into opera and the founding of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Edward Said.
Producer
Exploring the mysterious disappearance of Muriel McKay, the UK's first kidnapping case and one of the most infamous cases of mistaken identity.
Producer
O ano de 1929 passou à história como o ano no qual estourou a maior crise econômica do sistema capitalista. Os "Felizes Anos Vinte" foram um tempo de prosperidade e bonança econômica para os Estados Unidos que, ao contrário dos seus aliados europeus, haviam ressurgido fortes e dominantes da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Esta seria uma época dourada caracterizada por fortes investimentos, crédito fácil e especulação que atingiria o seu auge em Outubro de 1929, após a devastadora queda da Bolsa de Wall Street. As consequências dramáticas não tardariam a fazer-se sentir: incalculáveis perdas econômicas, mais de três mil bancos na bancarrota e um grande número de famílias na mais completa ruína.
