From Rhapsody in Blue to Porgy and Bess, everyone has heard of George Gershwin. This film is a musical exploration of the maestro.
Gershwin’s World
Music
The 2016 Grand Prix winner at International Television Festival Golden Prague, The Pianist of Yarmouk tells the true story of Ayham Ahmad - a Syrian refugee musician. Surrounded by ruins in Syria’s capital Damascus, Ayham sings accompanied by an out-of-tune piano about migration, hunger and death, until he is forced to flee to Germany. After his arrival in Munich, we follow the life of a man who sang out against the suffering in his country until his instrument was destroyed. His story is just one of many - one instance out of thousands who have been robbed of hopes and dreams and forced to build a new existance.new existence.
Ayham Ahmad (Starring), (Director), Dirk Seliger (Editor), (Director)