Romeo and Juliet (2004)

Romeo and Juliet

2004

Documentary Music

Synopsis

An emotional and stylistically consistent documentary musical depicting the staging of Bernstein’s West Side Story with deaf youths. The dramatic material is intertwined with life and the emotional scenes of the musical; it creates a distinctive choreography, which is a statement of the deaf people’s craving to love this world and to be open. Reciting to music, which is the way of singing of the deaf, is the strongest and most unexpected witness of the realities of their world.

Credits

Director

Viesturs Kairišs

Crew

Ieva Jurjāne (Art Direction)

Gints Bērziņš (Director of Photography)

Klaus Hundsbichler (Editor)

Guntis Trekteris (Producer)

Anrijs Krenbergs (Sound Director)

Normunds Kļaviņš (Sound Director)

Viesturs Kairišs (Writer)