This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in collaboration with Robert Wilson, one of today's most experimental theater director.
Arvo Pärt / Robert Wilson: The Lost Paradise
He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet Arvo Pärt rarely shows himself to the public, preferring to keep the secret of his music at home in the heart of the Estonian forest.
This documentary follows him for more than a year, from his native Estonia to Japan, via the Vatican.
We discover from a Soviet-era submarine factory in Tallin The Passion of Adam by composer Arvo Pärt (1935), in a dichotomous collaboration with the very experimental and multifaceted American stage director Robert Wilson.