We Want The Light - Christopher Nupen’s Award-Winning Documentary

The title of the film is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova. Her words provide both the title and the climax - in a setting for two choruses and orchestra by the American composer Franz Waxman. It is a film is about many things. It is about freedom and captivity, about emancipation, acculturation and assimilation; it is about Moses and Felix Mendelssohn; it is about Richard Wagner but, most of all, it is a film about how much music can mean to people, even in the direst of circumstances, or particularly in the direst of circumstances. Winner of the Jewish Cultural Award for Film and Television, 2004 Winner, Best Editing New York Film and Television Festival, 2004 Winner, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, 2005 Winner, DVD of the Year Award, 2005 Subscribe to the channel for more content: An Allegro Film by Christopher Nupen