The play opens up with a drone’s view over a building, where the main character, an old Berliner man, and the troupe are shooting.
After that, we get to know all the members of the project, composed of Belgians, Germans and also a Russian woman.
The documentary presents many interviews and dialogues with this man, who tells the troupe that he used to play in a philharmonic orchestra during the second World War. He tells the Belgian crew that during the war they wanted to play a piece of Wagner, Götterdämmerung, in bunkers.
The man also shows two pictures of places where he played with the orchestra.
But at half of the play, we find out that what the man is actually telling a lie. Based on some information, showing us that the place in the picture had been destroyed months before he was supposed to play there, the producer and his troupe figure out that his story never really happened. The musician’s dream to tell the world his story is ruined, and the producer is quite convinced that they have to stop the project altogether. But, after a meeting with his colleagues, he decides to transform the whole story from a documentary into a fictional movie.
In the end we see an orchestra, divided in many stages, playing the Wagner piece. The main character is listening, and in the meantime, his role is played by another actor.
Marta (Italy)
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