Play with the Devil – Becoming Zeal & Ardor

Mar 16, 2023

1h 12m

★ 7.0

Overview

Zeal & Ardor catapults Swiss musician Manuel Gagneux from the underground to the world stage. Religion, racism, segregation and appropriation: Gagneux makes music against taboos. But being a leader against his will scares the introverted artist. Can he remix the game?

Genres

Documentary

Music

Production Companies

soap factory

Recycled TV

SRF

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Cast

Himself

Manuel Gagneux

A musical, and also a reflection on watching, on trying to escape an anthropocentric gaze and also on watching itself in cinema. Featuring mares and horses: Triana, Víctor K, Bambi Sailor, San Special Solano, Buck Red Skin, Onkaia, Cool Boy, the donkey Agostino, the mule Guapa. And also Alfredo Lagos, Raül Refree, María Marín, Pepe Habichuela, Virgina García del Pino, María García Ruiz, Pilar Monsell, María Pérez Sanz.

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Oachkatzlschwoaf

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MEGUMI The Campaign

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8.0

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No overview available.

0.0

Negra

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6.7

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7.1

Love to Love You, Donna Summer

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0.0

Speakers for the Dead

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A film about small Ontario town's struggle to restore a desecrated African-Canadian cemetery and the resulting turmoil over it.

5.7

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0.0

Stevie Wonder: A Musical History

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7.8

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6.9

Heaven Adores You

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7.5

Woodstock

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8.5

Pioniere der Filmmusik - Europas Sound für Hollywood

Feb 25, 2024

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7.0

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9.8

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0.0

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6.9

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10.0

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Play with the Devil – Becoming Zeal & Ardor

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