Pianomania
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Robert Cibis
Stephan Knüpfer
Pierre-laurent Aimard
Lang Lang
Alfred Brendel
Till Fellner
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
"The tone isn't breathing," complains pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, distraught. This is a typical sentence in Steinway & Sons' chief technician and Master Tuner Stefan Knüpfer's normal work day. Each piano has its own personality, each piece demands its own timbre and every interpretation has a particular temperament. Viewers travel along on a humorous journey into the secret world of sounds, and accompanies Stefan Knüpfer at his unusual job with world famous pianists like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder, Till Fellner and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, among others. To find the right instrument with the necessary qualities, compatible with the vision of the virtuoso, to tune it to perfection and to finally get it on the stage, needs nerves of steel, boundless passion and extraordinary competence in translating words into sounds.
Cast
Stephan Knüpfer
Pierre-laurent Aimard
Lang Lang
Alfred Brendel
Till Fellner
Julius Drake
Aleksey Igudesman
Richard Hyung-ki Joo
Crew
Michele Barbin
David Benedikt
David Benedikt
Robert Cibis
Robert Cibis
Robert Cibis
Lilian Franck
Lilian Franck
Niklas Kammertöns
Vincent Lucassen
Ina Nikolow
Ina Nikolow
Jerzy Palacz
Sabine Panossian
Matthias Petsche
Ebba Sinzinger
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature at the 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival.
Winner of the SRG SSR idée suisse/Critic's Prize at the 2009 Locarno International Film Festival.
Limited Release in United States Spring May 27, 2011
Limited Release in United States Fall November 4, 2011
Released in United States on Video February 14, 2012
Released in United States August 2009
Released in United States 2010
Limited Release in United States Spring May 27, 2011
Limited Release in United States Fall November 4, 2011 (Los Angeles & New York City)
Released in United States on Video February 14, 2012
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (Feature Documentary Competition) April 22-May 6, 2010.
Released in United States 2010 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (Feature Documentary Competition) April 22-May 6, 2010.)
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (Critic's Week) August 5-15, 2009.
Released in United States August 2009 (Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (Critic's Week) August 5-15, 2009.)
