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IM SCHATTEN DER TRÄUME

IN THE SHADOWS OF DREAMS

By Martin WITZ

Documentary - Completed 2024

The story of an unusual friendship - the composer Michael Jary and the lyricist Bruno Balz. As the most successful duo in film and pop music, the two unlikely men have shaped German-language popular culture for decades.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary, Biography
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND, GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Martin WITZ
- Writer(s)
- Martin WITZ
- Producer(s)
- Ivan MADEO (CONTRAST FILM ZÜRICH GMBH), Carl-Ludwig RETTINGER (LICHTBLICK FILM-U. FERNSEHPRODUKTION GMBH)
- Synopsis
- The story of a great – and highly productive – friendship between lyricist Bruno Balz and composer Michael Jary. As the most successful duo in German film and schlager music, they have shaped our pop culture for over five decades. Their lives could provide the script for a melodrama: The Roaring Twenties, cinema glamor, iconic songs for superstar Zarah Leander, Gestapo imprisonment, hail of bombs, new beginnings in the Fifties and the swinging Sixties – their songs are still alive today.