Strangers in the Night - The Bert Kaemfert Story

Documentary on Bert Kaempfert life. It covers since his beginnings to his successes and the disco era. There is a that has a DVD + CD release, with the "A one of and His Music" CD has 20 tracks of world hits.
 

Information:
Director: Marc Boettcher
Format: Dolby, HiFi Sound, PAL
Language: German (Dolby Digital 2.0) and English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Resolution: 4:3
Release Date: October 18, 2004
Running Time: 120 minutes

Product Description:
"Strangers into the Night - The Bert Kaempfert Story", it discovered and produced the Beatles, arranged for Elvis Presley and help Al Martino with "Spanish Eyes" to its comeback. International ones of star such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley Bassey and Ella Fitzgerald sang his compositions and orchestra leaders such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie took up his compositions to its repertoire. It had its large break-through with "Strangers in The Night", a century hit. The speech is born of Bert Kaempfert, 1923 in Hamburg, which conquered the world with its music. Up to the "Lifetime Achievement Award" lent by the American copyright company BMI, the price for his life's work, was it however a long and stony way over approximately 400 compositions and more than 750 arrangements. These gave it up to its death 1980 for more than 150 million to sold records. After numerous honors Bert Kaempfert and its became the deceased friend and co-author Herbert, in 1993 the most important international honour likewise finally assigns: taken up with a solemn ceremony to New York it to the "Songwriter's Hall of Fame". This documentary film of the golden 20's-years up to the Disco era leaves used, colleagues and friends of Kaempfert such as Freddy Quinn, James Last and Brenda Lee to word to come and loads to seeing again with Nat "King" Cole, Caterina Valente and many more in.
 

Product Description:
This is interesting documentation of Marc Boettcher, who already made the film over the singer Alexandra. Here becomes the life, which in addition, setbacks of the world-well-known Bandleader lights up music. Its life in the war, the new beginning, the Polydor years, the Kaempfert sound, Kriesenzeiten and the parting. Into these chapters the film was divided and it comes also Freddy Quinn, Hildegard Knef, James Last, Kaempfert's family and many friends and way companion to word. A interesting cross section of 120min length plus CD with its most beautiful titles and Arrangements.