A film about the French orchestra Divertimento
Zahia Ziouani founded Divertimento in 1998. The film of the same name will be released in German-speaking Switzerland at the end of June.
As a young enthusiastic musician, Zahia Ziouani founded the Divertimento orchestra in the Paris agglomeration. "I wanted to realize a musical project that resembled me, a young woman named Zahia from Stains," she said in a recent interview. As a conductor, she wanted to show that classical music is not stuck in the past, but is open to everything and everyone in the world.
Ziouani studied with Sergiu Celibidache for a year at the age of seventeen. After his death, she consistently pursued her path as a conductor.
Director Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar drew inspiration from Ziouani's real life to create the film. Divertimento - an orchestra for everyone inspire. It shows how Zahia and her twin sister, the cellist Fettouma, have been fascinated by classical music since early childhood and how Zahia, as a woman with Algerian roots and from an underprivileged Parisian suburb, has to fight hard to make her way as a conductor in the mid-1990s.
In French-speaking Switzerland Divertimento since the end of January. The film will be released in German-speaking Switzerland on June 29.
