UNITED ONE. RECORDS TUVALU

TUVALU - A journey into the world of dreams - U1CD 5001-2 Soundtrack of the cinema of Veit Helmer "Veit Helmer's splendid fable is timeless... maniacally inventive..." Chicago Sun-Times "There is comedy, emotion and romance abundance and, above all else, a genuinely distinctive visual style, employed to brilliant effect." Sandra Hebron, London Film Festival "With ‚Tuvalu', Veit Helmer managed a little wonder with big visual effects, that teach seeing and hearing, again, setting on feelings and body language." Blickpunkt: Film "Tuvalu" - nearby a cinema of superlatives. It had need from the idea till cinema start thirteen years. It's a first cinema without German stars and almost without dialogues, a cinema, it's working about the pictures and the wonderful atmospheric sounds, at first. Completely shooted in black-and-white, it was color later in the duplication studio. It is a very special, a tremendous cinema. Who is wondering, that "Tuvalu" received rating "Besonders wertvoll" (very valuable) and won countless awards at international film festivals. After receiving the "Bayrischen Filmpreis" (Bavarian Film Award) for the best upcoming director, Veit Helmer is nominated as "Best Director" for the "Deutsche Filmpreis 2000" (German Film Award). After June 22nd, 2000, everybody get the chance to convince of that cinema in the European cinemas. That these kind of cinema needs a very special music, everybody will understand. Veit Helmer had obtain for his project one of the leading German film-composers, Jürgen Knieper. His atmospheric compositions are unobtrusive, but they increase the visual impressions. Otherwise, the music without the pictures is inviting to a individual "journey into the world of dreams". The tissue of sounds is remembering on a landscape of Monet: sparkling glass-harp-sounds, fiery Bulgarian women choirs, airy strings, dot like brush strokes, and very earthly Hawaii-guitars. Like a mocking bird, we can hear Goran Bregovic's "The Mocking Song" at the end, to reconcile us with the reality. www.tuvalu-derfilm.de As a little bonus, the CD is including a CD-ROM-track with the cinema promotion trailer of "Tuvalu", playable on MacIntosh and Windows-PC.