Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony (2008)

Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a breakneck concert tour of six metropolises across Asia: Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo. Their artistic triumph onstage belies a dynamic and dramatic life backstage. The orchestra is a closed society that observes its own laws and traditions, and in the words of one of its musicians is, “an island, a democratic microcosm – almost without precedent in the music world - whose social structure and cohesion is not only founded on a common love for music but also informed by competition, compulsion and the pressure to perform to a high pitch of excellence... .” Never before has the Berlin Philharmonic allowed such intimate and exclusive access into its private world.

Released Feb. 28, 2008 108 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Music

Keywords: tmdb.berlin-germany, tmdb.asia, tmdb.shanghai-china, tmdb.orchestra, tmdb.concert, tmdb.travel, tmdb.hong-kong + 3 more, mdblist.one-actor, soundmix.dolby-digital, aspectratio.1-85-1