Director: Frandi Miro
Writers: Peter Lucy / Frandi Milo / Lucas Souter
Starring: Theo Gegel / Bruno Gantz
Genre: Drama / Music
Country/Region of Production: Switzerland
Language: Swiss German / English
Release: 2006-02-02
Runtime: 100 minutes
Synopsis
An excellent IQ is not necessarily a good thing, and the teenager Vitus deeply appreciates this. Vitus was born with a super high IQ, and his parents always wanted him to become a great pianist.
Under the pressure of his parents, Vitus was always depressed, and fortunately there was a grandfather who understood him. Grandpa, like Vitus, was full of ambitions and wanted to be a pilot since childhood, but eventually became a carpenter. When Grandpa finally flew like a bird in his plane, he told Vitus:
Although he has been a carpenter all his life, he is still very happy, because ideals are only part of life, and all you have to do in life is to go forward according to the arrangement of fate.
Genuine piano prodigy
When it comes to movies about piano, most people probably think of "The Pianist at Sea", "The Pianist", "Shining Style" and so on.
"Shining Style", "Pianist", "Sea Pianist"
The actors in these classic piano-themed films are particularly professional at playing the piano, but they are actually piano masters in disguise.
For example, Tim Ross, the actor in "The Pianist of the Sea", does not play the piano at all, and he studied hard for six months before the film began.
Theo Gegel
The protagonist of Little Piano Prodigy is a professional pianist from Zurich, Switzerland. As a child, Theo Gegel was very talented in music, he began to learn piano at the age of five, entered a century-old music school in Switzerland at the age of nine, began to perform on stage at the age of 12, and held concerts in more than a dozen countries in Europe and Asia when he grew up, and now at the age of 28, he has married and had children, but the piano is still a very important part of his life.
Piano genius cultivation
The 12-year-old male protagonist Vitus plays in concert
In 2004, before the film began, the Swiss director of "Little Prodigy" At the time, Flandy Miro was looking for a young actor in the protagonist, and just when Gegel, who had just won the first prize in the San Marino Piano Competition, attracted much attention, he immediately decided to invite the 12-year-old Gegel to star.
Stills from "The Little Prodigy at the Piano"
Originally, the official shooting time of the film was set for April 2005, but because he wanted to shoot part of the film when the actors were closest to the age of the characters, the director proposed to shoot the concert footage. However, the producers did not have enough money to shoot a concert with 1500 extras, so they decided to organize a public concert for a fee to attract a real audience. But who would come to see a 12-year-old play the piano? Fortunately, the oldest symphony orchestra in Switzerland, the 136-year-old Zurich Concert Hall Orchestra at the time, admired the piano talent of the 12-year-old Gegel and they were willing to perform with the Gegel ensemble.
Zurich Concertgebouw Orchestra
So in October 2004, at the age of 12, Gegel completed his first concert in Zurich, Switzerland.
Gegel's opportunity also came from his family, originally When Gegel's mother wanted to learn piano, the little Gegel on the side slowly fell in love with the instrument.
The Gegel family
Last year, the 28-year-old Gegel was delighted with a daughter who, like him, was also educated by music next to her parents from an early age, and perhaps a new piano prodigy will appear in the future.
Gegel and his daughter
In fact, Gegel is really lucky, because not only did he not have a "tiger mother" when he learned piano, but his first screen electrocution met the "cat master" who guided him to act.
Stills from Heidi and Grandpa
This "cat master" is the Swiss actor Bruno Gantz who plays Vitus's grandfather in the movie. The grandfather he played in another acclaimed warm movie "Heidi and Grandpa" has touched countless people.
A genius life coach
Bruno Gantz
Born in 1941 in zurich, a German-speaking city in Switzerland, Bruno Gantz has been developing his film career in Germany, Italy and other countries ever since. He was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 European Film Awards and has worked with several representative German directors, such as two Cannes Film Festival Best Director Winners Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog.
However, his film career was not smooth sailing, born in a working-class family, he experienced more than a decade of unknown time in his youth, until he starred in "Under the Berlin Sky", a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or-nominated film, which made his acting talent known to the public.
Bruno Gantz portrays one deep and intelligent character after another in the film. Whether it's the angels watching the world's troubles in "Under the Berlin Sky," the poets who examine themselves in "Eternity and a Day," or the grandfather in "The Little Prodigy on the Piano."
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