Love & Justice: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Rebel Opera (2023)
1h 27m
Running Time
February 15, 2023Release Date
Love & Justice: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Rebel Opera (2023)
1h 27m
Running Time
February 15, 2023Release Date
Plot.
Kerry Candaele’s second Beethoven film (after Following the Ninth) explores the composer’s only opera, Fidelio, through the lens of a contemporary political context: the long shadow of Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. Jorge Pena Hen was a composer and conductor. He was also among the tens of thousands arrested and killed after the coup which brought down the democratically-elected socialist Allende government. Restaging Fidelio in an abandoned factory in Valparaíso, Candaele meets Pena Hen’s granddaughter, Maria, who dedicates her art form — Butoh dance — to memorializing her grandfather, and sees surprising echoes of the opera in her tale. Love & Justice has it all: Beethoven’s stirring music and singing, history, politics, but above all it’s an inspiring testament to the enduring power of creativity and artistic expression, even in the hardest times.
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Cast & Crew.
Alexis Exequiel Sanchez Silva
Florestan
María Belén Espinosa Peña
Self
Daniel Andres Olmos Müller
Conductor
Kerry Candaele
Director
Pam Gunther
Producer
Chris Bottoms
Director of Photography
Greg Blake Miller
Producer
Christopher Bottoms
Cinematographer
Caren McCaleb
Editor
Liliam Molina-Cesareo
Associate Producer
Nick Taylor
Associate Producer
Details.
Release DateFebruary 15, 2023
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 27m
Content RatingNR
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