Traces to Nowhere: The Conductor Carlos Kleiber

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It runs a compact 1h 12m.

Synopsis

A documentary about the life and career of the conductor Carlos Kleiber. Featuring interviews with Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Manfred Honeck, Michael Gielen, and others. On the 11th July 2004 Carlos Kleiber got into his car and drove from Munich, via the Alps, to his holiday home in the remote Slovenian village of Konjsica. There he wrote a final letter to a friend in which he bid farewell to the world. A short time later the conductor, increasingly plagued by illness and suffering, was found dead.

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Key crew

• Eric SchulzDirector

Cast

• Carlos KleiberCast
• Brigitte FassbaenderCast
• Otto SchenkCast
• Plácido DomingoCast
• Michael GielenCast
• Veronika KleiberCast

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