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Kinshasa Symphony is a Allemand film of genre Documentary

Kinshasa Symphony (2010)

Kinshasa Symphony
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Length 1h35
OriginGerman
Genres Documentary,    Musical
Rating75% 3.7539753.7539753.7539753.7539753.753975

Kinshasa Symphony is a German 2010 documentary film.

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Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the third-largest city in Africa with 10 million inhabitants. The film shows how some people living there have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra (Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste) performing composers such as Handel, Verdi, Beethoven. "Kinshasa Symphony" shows Kinshasa in all its diversity, speed, colour, vitality and energy. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.

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