· An extensive portrait about one of the world’s leading conductors
· on 29th April 2021 Zubin Mehta will celebrate his 85th birthday
· filmmaker Bettina Ehrhardt accompanies the conductor to those places which were closely connected to his life - Mumbai, Israel, Berlin and Florence
· the documentary takes a look back at a great career between Europe and North America
· including the performance of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder from Semperoper Dresden featuring the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in 2010
A film by Bettina Ehrhardt
“Success has not gone to his head. Hes’ the same Zubin now, as I knew him as he was a little kid.” – Yusuf Hamied (Childhood Friend)
Zubin Mehta is one of the world`s leading conductors. Born and raised in India, he is a brilliant symbol of today`s cross-cultural world and a living proof of the power of music to bridge different cultures and to break social and political barriers
