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Released
1997 · FILM

Bach Cello Suite #5: Struggle for Hope

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Runtime
55 min
Drama

Synopsis

Master Kabuki actor Tamasaburo Bando sets out on a journey to discover, through traditional Japanese dance, the universality and emotion of Bach's Fifth Suite. The result is this revelatory, cross-cultural and trans-oceanic collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma, sensitively documented by filmmaker Niv Fichman.

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Principal cast & crew: 6

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Edited by David NewShot by Joost Dankelman

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