Jan GarbarekFilmography

Born:: March 4, 1947
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

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Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

Actors: Jan Garbarek, Django Bates, Antonello Salis, Gianluigi Trovesi, Paul Kuhn

Synopsis: Take a voyage through the history of European jazz in this musical meditation on the origins, growth, and exciting shifts in direction that came to define the endless search for that ever-elusive "voice of one's own." As musicians from both sides of the Atlantic began working in unison, jazz Read More

2006
An Enemy of the People

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jørgen Langhelle, Trine Wiggen, Kasper Sveen, Sven Nordin, Pia Tjelta

2005
The Giant Buddhas

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Niloufar Pazira, Sayyed Mirza Hussain, Taysir Alony, Zemaryalai Tarzi

Synopsis: In the wake of the Taliban's call for the destruction of all non-Islamic-related statues in February of 2001, the world was robbed of two of its most remarkable landmarks. Despite international outrage, two stone Buddhas -- one measuring 53 meters tall -- were hastily turned to rubble by Islamic Read More

2005
The Journey To Kafiristan

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeanette Hain, Nina Petri, Matthew Burton, Hassan Darweesh, Ozlen Soydan

Synopsis: Set in a Europe on the brink of war, The Journey to Kafiristan is the story of two women who leave their home in Switzerland to journey together to Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1939. Annemarie Schwarzenbach is a Swiss socialite and writer who leaves Geneva with Ella Maillart, an ethnologist. Both women Read More

2001
Portraet av Gud

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jon Bang Carlsen attempts to explore the importance of religion and spirituality in the lives of men who have transgressed the rules of society in this thought-provoking documentary. Born and raised in South Africa, Carlsen returned home to speak to the inmates of one of the nation's Read More

2001
Emporte-Moi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Karine Vanasse, Alexandre Merineau, Pascale Bussières, Miki Manojlovic, Charlotte Christeler

Synopsis: Swiss born Léa Pool, who settled in Montreal, Quebec in 1975, set her sixth feature film, Emporte-Moi, in Mile's End, Montreal's working class district, in the year 1963. Hanna is a thirteen-year-old girl who is mesmerized by Anna Karina's portrayal of Nana S. in Jean-Luc Godard's film Vivre sa Vie Read More

3/10/00
Kippur

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Uri Ran Klauzner, Yoram Hattab, Juliano Merr

Synopsis: Filmmaker Amos Gitai was a first-hand witness to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which troops from Egypt and Syria chose one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar to launch a surprise attack on Israel. This film examines the short but bloody conflict through the eyes of a student, Weinraub (Liron Read More

2000
Vesna Va Veloce

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: A 20-year-old Eastern European girl impetuously ditches the rest of her tour group to embark upon a new life in Italy. Though she writes friends and family glowing accounts of her fabulous and successful adventures in her adopted home, the truth is much more tragic. Intelligently and poignantly Read More

1996
Trollsyn

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Synopsis: This historical Norwegian drama suitable for family viewing, centers on an 8-year old 14th-century Norwegian girl from an isolated valley on Norway's west coast who loses most of her family and neighbors to the dreaded Black Death.. Following the death of her community, the girl, Maren, learns to Read More

1994
Heiss - Kalt

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1992
Reise der Hoffnung

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nur Surer, Emin Sivas, Ardinc Akbas, Yaman Okay

Synopsis: Xavier Koller's fact-based drama chronicles the hardships suffered by a family of Turkish farmers who sell all of their worldly possessions in order to fund an escape to the greener pastures of Switzerland. En route, they fall prey to a group of smugglers, who direct them to access Switzerland via Read More

4/26/91
Shuttlecock

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alan Bates, Lambert Wilson, Kenneth Haigh

Synopsis: From her vantage point as a neighbor, nightclub singer Lina (Liane Hielscher) observes and comments (through her act) on the complex tangle of romantic attractions which center on the offices of a psychiatrist (Christian Phillips) who lives and works in the hothouse climate of Southern California. Read More

1991
Der Indianer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Leonhard, the brother of this film's scenarist Michael Lentz, is the subject of this unusual documentary. As Leonhard went through the rigors of being diagnosed and treated for throat cancer, eventually having a large portion of his throat removed, he kept a detailed diary. The pain and disruption Read More

1988
Teo El Pelirrojo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alvaro de Luna, Juan Diego Botto, Maria Luisa San Jose, Ovidi Montillor, Luis Escobar

Synopsis: The depth of bonding between young Santiago (Juan Diego Botto) and his dying grandfather, as well as his grandfather's foreman Teo, underlies this interesting drama. After Santiago and his family arrive at his grandfather's farm, the elderly gentleman dies but not before telling his grandson a Read More

1986
Papierfuglen

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elisabeth Mortensen, Per Sunderland, Bjørn Floberg, Kjell Stormoen

Synopsis: Somewhat thrown off by a plethora of subplots, this exploration of a woman's disturbed psyche has several stories and various threads interwoven all at once, yet it is still an interesting tale. Lawyer Helen Stousland's (Elisabeth Mortensen) father commits suicide by jumping out of a window, and Read More

1984
Melzer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Adelheid Arndt

Synopsis: Mauro Melzer (Ruediger Vogler) is an artist whose canvasses are much admired, but who feels his mental stability is wobbly, and so he asks a psychiatric clinic to check him in until he can return to normal. His behavior is, in part, patterned after the famous Swiss writer Robert Walser who was Read More

1983
Ja, vi elsker

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sverre Anker Ousdal

Synopsis: Using the context of a drowning man who reviews his life and past major events in his last moments, this long, pessimistic film looks at ponderous and depressing subjects: young hotheads only interested in expounding their viewpoints, corpses in a concentration camp, Norwegians giving a "heil Read More

1983