"Short film for the 2026 Bavarian State Exhibition “Music in Bavaria”"
Across generations, a single instrument connects people from different eras - from an emigrating zither player in the Bavarian Forest in 1881, to the persecuted and the lovers of the 20th century, to a deaf young woman in present-day Munich - weaving them into a polyphonic, musical hymn to memory, loss, and solidarity.
Xari Wimbauer
Lenz
Johanna Rempel
Amelie
Ingrid Resch
Heide
Maria Hafner
Dolores
Franziska Wanninger
Gitti
Matthias Ransberger
Aaron
Across generations, a single instrument connects people from different eras - from an emigrating zither player in the Bavarian Forest in 1881, to the persecuted and the lovers of the 20th century, to a deaf young woman in present-day Munich - weaving them into a polyphonic, musical hymn to memory, loss, and solidarity.
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