Helicopter String Quartet

Helicopter String Quartet

1996
1h 21m
5.7

5.7/10

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Overview

One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in the clouds, with each of a quartet’s members tucked inside his own chopper, communicating through headsets, stringing away in sync to the rotor-blade motors. He immediately set forth to make that dream a reality. In 1995, Dutch film director Scheffer followed Stockhausen in the days leading up to the premiere performance of his Helicopter String Quartet in Amsterdam. The resulting film offers a rare glimpse of Stockhausen as he patiently dictates every agonizingly detailed measure to the Arditti Quartet.

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Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies
Allegri Film
Production Countries
Netherlands
Spoken Languages
German English

Keywords

composer classical music avant-garde

Quick Facts

Original Title Helikopter Streichquartett
Release Date October 17, 1996
Status Released
Language DE
IMDb ID tt0113286

Cast

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Himself

Irvine Arditti
Irvine Arditti

Self

Graeme Jennings
Graeme Jennings

Self

Garth Knox
Garth Knox

Self

Rohan de Saram
Rohan de Saram

Self

Key Crew

Frank Scheffer
Director
Frank Scheffer
Producer
Frank Scheffer
Writer
Ton Van Der Lee
Producer