Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

55 mins | Documentary, Music | Nov. 11, 2004

An emotional and stylistically consistent documentary musical depicting the staging of Bernstein’s West Side Story with deaf youths. The dramatic material is intertwined with life and the emotional scenes of the musical; it creates a distinctive choreography, which is a statement of the deaf people’s craving to love this world and to be open. Reciting to music, which is the way of singing of the deaf, is the strongest and most unexpected witness of the realities of their world.

Romeo and Juliet

55 mins | Documentary, Music | Nov. 11, 2004

Romeo and Juliet
An emotional and stylistically consistent documentary musical depicting the staging of Bernstein’s West Side Story with deaf youths. The dramatic material is intertwined with life and the emotional scenes of the musical; it creates a distinctive choreography, which is a statement of the deaf people’s craving to love this world and to be open. Reciting to music, which is the way of singing of the deaf, is the strongest and most unexpected witness of the realities of their world.
Producers Kaupo Filma
Original title Romeo un Džuljeta
Directors Viesturs Kairišs
Writers Viesturs Kairišs

Cast