GOOD THOUGHTS, GOOD WORDS, GOOD DEEDS

Beautiful homage to Zubin Mehta

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Zubin Mehta is one of the world’s leading conductors. Born and raised in India in a Parsi family, he moved to Vienna to continue his musical studies. At the age of 25 he was already conducting the world’s greatest orchestras.

Filmmaker Bettina Ehrhardt creates a tender homage to this exceptional artist. We follow Zubin Mehta over the course of many months in Israel, India, Italy and Germany, watching him work with the orchestras and institutions to which he has devoted his entire life. The Parsi saying Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds has been at the core of Zubin Mehta’s actions both musical and charitable. This film is about a great artist loved by audiences and musicians alike, whose presence radiates warmth and humanity.

Zubin Mehta
Sir Peter Jonas
James Madison Cox
Guy Eshed
Dudu Carmel
Miriam Hartman
Avi Shoshani
Chaim Taub
Cristina Pucci di Barsento
Igor Polesitsky
Ambrogio Maestri
Alarmel Valli
Khushroo N. Santook
Greta Bradman
Nancy Mehta
Staatskapelle Berlin
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper München
Vijay Amritraj
Stanley Dodds
Yuja Wang
Mira Ross
Rachel Kam
Tami Narkiss-Melzer
Enrique Maltz
Daniel Barenboim
Ladislao Horváth
Luca Logi
Mario Dradi
Mehroo Jeejeebhoy
Yusuf Hamied
Nusli Wadia
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Australian World Orchestra

camera
Ankur Kapoor
Hans Albrecht Lusznat
Christian Möller
Uri Akermann
Tobias Albrecht
Maik Behres
Anna Crotti
Idan Helman
Adi Poncha
Shai Raz
Ayan Saxena
Sushma Thomas
Moni Shem Tov

sound
Piet Grotelüschen
Samant Christopher Lakra
Amir Tam

music recording
Shalini Agarwal
Silvio Brambilla
Rafi Eshel
Nikolaus Löwe (RBB)

editing
Monika Abspacher

music mixing
Wolfgang Hoff (RBB)
Sebastian Riederer von Paar

narrator
Osman Ragheb

re-recording
Nico Krebs

color correction
Wolfdieter Gautzsch
Raimond Fischbach

postproduction manager
Julia Furch

postproduction assistent
Oskar Król

editorial collaboration
Dina Gilbert
Renate Matuschka

photo archives
Zubin Mehta’s Private Collection
Yusuf Hamied’s Private Collection
Kurush Umrigar
Mehli Mehta Music Foundation
The Murray S. Katz Photo
Archives of the IPO

film archives
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Israel Broadcasting Authority
Wiener Philharmoniker
European Broadcasting Union
Dani Dror (Fantasia Film)
Unitel Classica
Christopher Nupen (Allegro)
Mario Dradi (IME Productions)
OOS-Opera on Original Site
Michael Ecker (Executive Producer)
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