Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz

The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.

• Christian BergerDirector
• Christian BergerWriter

• Anita Lasker-WallfischSelf
• Kathrin AckermannSelf
• Daniel BarenboimSelf
• Sven FriedrichSelf
• Norman LebrechtSelf
• Christian ThielemannSelf
• Simon WallfischSelf
• Teresa Wontor-CichySelf