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The Disciples - A Street Opera

Ramón Gieling / NL, 2017 / 80 min.

Filmmaker Ramón Gieling followed the members of the homeless choir De Straatklinkers during rehearsals for The Disciples, a street opera written by Gieling and composed by Boudewijn Tarenskeen especially for them. Gieling based himself on their experiences to create the raw characters.

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Director

Ramón Gieling

Production year

2017

Country

NL

Original title

De discipelen

Length

80 min.

Language

Dutch, English

Subtitles

NLD

Format

DCP

Accessibility

Earcatch

Part of

Ramón Gieling at Work

Filmmaker, writer, theatre-maker, visual artist: in every role Ramón Gieling wants to get to the bottom of things and see what drives people. The maker of En un momento dado, an extraordinary film about Johan Cruyff’s years in Barcelona, and Erbarme dich (St Matthew Passion), likes to explore the boundary between reality and imagination.

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