- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2; 1 audiodisc of 1.
color.
sound - stereo.
- Notes:
- Supplemental materials include extracts from the soundtrack to Akerman’s 1996 film A COUCH IN NEW YORK, performed by Wieder-Atherton with other musicians.
Titles
+ Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton
- Alternate Title:
- With Sonia Wieder-Atherton
- Director:
- Akerman, Chantal
- Production Co:
- AMIP; Arte France; INA
- Running Time:
- Feature. 52 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2003
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Television Production, Performance, Music, Female Directors
- Notes:
- The documentary begins with a short interview with Wieder-Atherton, followed by a performance by Wieder-Atherton (cello), Imogen Cooper (piano), Sarah Iancu and Matthieu Lejeune (cello).
The program contains: Jewish Prayer (Monteverdi); Les mots sont allés (Berio); Presto (Janácek); Sonata in E minor (Brahms); Ritornello (Monteverdi); Litanei (Schubert).
+ Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher
- Alternate Title:
- Three Strophes on the Name of Sacher
- Director:
- Akerman, Chantal
- Production Co:
- Le Centre Pompidou; Mallia Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1989
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Television Production, Performance, Music, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Performance of Henri Dutilleux’s “Three Strophes on the name of Sacher” by Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello).
+ A L’Est
- Alternate Title:
- Songs from Slavic Lands
- Director:
- Akerman, Chantal
- Production Co:
- Arte France; AMIP-RCP-CHEMAH I.S.; Cléa Productions
- Running Time:
- Feature. 85 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France, Poland
- Year:
- 2008
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Television Production, Performance, Music, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Performance by Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) with the Sinfonia Varsovia (Christophe Mangou, director).
The program contains:
Part 1. Vespers (Rachmaninov); Ruralia Hungarica (Dohnányi); Song in the style of Schubert (Jewish traditional); Tatar Dance (Tcherepnin); Jeux d’enfants, after Janáček’s Moravian Folksongs (Krawczyk).
Part 2. Rondo Maygar (Kodaly); The Field of the Dead (Prokofiev); Variations on a Slovak Folksong (Martinu); Rückert-Lieder (Mahler); Traditional Dance.
+ Chantal Akerman Films Sonia Wieder-Atherton
- Alternate Title:
- Chantal Akerman Filme Sonia Wieder-Atherton
- Director:
- Akerman, Chantal
- Production Co:
- various
- Running Time:
- Compilation. 149 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France, Poland
- Year:
- 1989 - 2008
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Television Production, Performance, Music, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Three-disc set, with two discs of documentary and concert films and one audio disc featuring cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton.
Disc 1 contains: AVEC SONIA WIEDER-ATHERTON (2002, 52 min.); TROIS STROPHES SUR LE NOM DE SACHER (1989, 12 min.).
Disc 2 contains: A L’EST, Parts 1&2 (2008, 85 min.).
Disc 3 contains extracts from the soundtrack to Akerman’s 1996 film A COUCH IN NEW YORK, performed by Wieder-Atherton with other musicians.
