The movie itself is very good, no need to go into details.
Let’s talk about the final scene of the movie.
The Czech Republic has two national treasures of composers, Dvorak and Smetana.
Dvorak was famous in the world at the end of the 19th century. When he was sojourning in the United States, he absorbed the elements of black spiritual songs and wrote the ninth symphony "From the New World" with homesickness, which was left in history.
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) is known as the "Father of Czech National Music" and enjoys an extremely high status in the Czech Republic. His symphonic poem "Ma Vlast My Motherland" is a national music school. Classic.
When Smetana lived, the Czech Republic was under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. With the failure of the revolution, Smetana had to leave his motherland for Sweden due to his livelihood. In 1860, the Habsburg dynasty gave Bohemia a certain degree of cultural autonomy and political autonomy before Smetana returned to the motherland.
At the end of the film, the concert was very meaningful.
After the "Velvet Revolution" Luca returned to the Prague Symphony Orchestra. This play uses Smetana's symphonic poem "My Motherland" in the fifth movement "Tabble" instead of the rest of this great work. Famous movements such as "Vltava". Tabor is a town about 100 kilometers south of Prague. Jan Hus, a professor at the University of Prague and a pioneer of the Czech Reformation, was burned for criticizing the Catholic Church for a religious trial. After the death of Huss, his followers united to resist the lords, churches and German invasion. From 1419 to 1434, they fought 15 years of armed struggle, known as the Hussite War in history. This movement describes the tragic scene of the Hussites fighting on the Tabor battlefield. The song "Warriors of God, who are you all" from the Hussite movement is used in the music.
The conductor of this concert in the film is the Czech national treasure-level conductor Rafael Kubelik. He was forced to leave in 1948 and traveled across the oceans to the United States like his predecessor Dvorak. Kubelik lived in exile for 40 years, and it was not until the "Velvet Revolution" that he was able to return to his homeland. At the opening ceremony of the "Prague Spring" music festival in 1990, he once again conducted "My Motherland" with the baton. When the last note fell, there was thunderous applause from the audience, and tears of the old conductor on the stage. The Czech record company SUPRAPHON recorded and published this performance, which once became a treasure sought after by record lovers all over the world. Kubelik has recorded "My Motherland" six times in his life, and this edition is the most precious and legendary. After that concert, Kubelik, who was 76 years old, slowly faded out of the podium, which became Kubelik's last recording. The director gave him a not-short close-up to pay tribute to the master. Soon after the film was completed, the master passed away. This has also become the last image left by the master. (From "The Gemini Stars of Bohemia")
Whether it is a selection or a concert, the conductor has such a strong innuendo.
At the end of the movie, when the actor took the little boy out to hide, at a friend's house, they listened to the surging wind on the radio. My mood also vigorously resonated.
With the aftertaste of the film, I re-extracted Kubelik’s command of "My Motherland" to express my heart.
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