Songs on the Death of children (1976)
Based on a free interpretation of Gustav Mahler´s Song Cycle by the same name and a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, this multiple award winning film is a striking example of Titus Leber´s approach to visualise classical music. Using his so called “multi-layer-method” to superimpose several image layers the author takes us in a dream-like lamentation-quest of a mother's winter-journey searching for her child who has been carried off by the Angel of Death.
Director: Titus Leber
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Elisabeth Kallina as Mutter |
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Steve Bernas as Todesseraph |
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Suzanne Fichtenbaum as die Nacht |
| Directing | Titus Leber | Director |
| Writing | Titus Leber | Writer |
| Writing | Hans Christian Andersen | Original Story |
| Writing | Friedrich Rückert | Original Story |
| Sound | Gustav Mahler | Music |
| Camera | Dieter Wittich | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Titus Leber | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Titus Leber | Editor |