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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094634197823
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Sony Pictures Classics
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Classics
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures Classics
Release Date: February 07, 2006
Sales Rank: 42929
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Disc 1:- Ave Maria
- Overture
- Fraternizers' Hymn (piano)
- Anna and Nikolaus
- War
- Soldiers' Burial
- Bist du bei mir
- Silent Night
- Jonathan's Letter
- Ponchel's Memories
- The Football Match
- The Bishop's Sermon
- The Soldier's Mail
- War Adagio
- The Absence Theme
- Fraternizers' Hymn: 'I'm Dreaming Of Home'
- Adeste Fideles
- Invitations: 'I'm Dreaming Of Home'
- Anna and Nikolaus
- Aria for Violin and Orchestra
- Fraternizers' Hymn (Murmurs and vocalises)
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Rating:  - Movie was good but...
I thought the movie was good, but I was disapointed with the rating. I think the sexual scene was downplayed in the PG13 rating, i.e. "a little bit of sexual nudity"..I would not want any children watching that scene, it was obvious sexual intercourse.I think it should have had an R rating instead.
I was very disappointed with the rating
Rating: - another different & newer version of a similar movie.
wonderful sound track, beautiful, melancholy, nostalgic, sad but sublime music to synchronize this unnecessary human tragedy.
i remember that i've seen an older movie exactly like this, but it's american soldiers and german soldiers doing the x'mas truce, drinking and singing the x'mas carols together on x'mas eve. why and how it became possible? because both countries still have the same religion, the same belief and the same god.
anyway, the premise of that and this movie is to deliver a message to you: enemy is what your president, your chancellor, your goverment, your generals giving to you. they point across the border, telling you that a whole foreign country out there and the all the people in that specific nation are your enemy. when these people decide to declare the war on that country, then the people in that country suddenly become your enemy. before that, you never knew that you've got an enemy, you'd never thought the people in that country would be your enemy.
funny thing is once the war is over, tourism would take over, and then you'd travel to that once you thought very unfriendly country and shake the hands of that country's people. if you go there in the holiday season, you'd say 'merry x'mas' to each other with smiles on your face.
but some of the countries that would never become your friendly nations and your friendly foreign people if you invade their country and force them to reform a new government and replace all the guys your government doesn't like. ... Read More
Rating: - One of Those Rare Film Soundtracks of Significance
Philippe Rombi is a composer new to this listener and being so impressed with the film 'Joyeux Noël' encouraged purchasing the Soundtrack. Not a mistake at all. For once the entire music excerpts of significance are intact, even the artists who were guests, providing professional opera singers for the voices of the two cinematic actor/singers.
Rombi opens the film about WW I with very eloquent, quiet, lovely solo piano music, and very often he is so sensitive to the message of the film that just when the action looks as though the music should be of the Carmina Burana ilk, Rombi settles for orchestral Adagios. He has elected to use the carols Stille Nacht and Adeste Fidelis for the actor Sprink to sing and uses the voice of the gifted tenor Rolando Villazon to intone the music. To establish the relationship between the two opera singers, Sprink and Anna (Villazon and Natalie Dessay), he has them perform a duet version of Bach's 'Bist du bei mer' - the words of which take on deep meaning as the film progresses. When he has a moment for Anna to sing a solo, he writes his own version of Ave Maria for Anna/Natalie Dessay to sing. It is very lovely.
There are several 'tunes' written for the score - 'Fraternizers' Hymn' ('I'm Dreaming Of Home'), the theme for Anna and Nikolaus - which very well could endure long after the score and film disappear, they are that fine.
In all the score is very strong and well played, sung, and conducted. This is a soundtrack that ... Read More
Rating: - Film on DVD?
Anyone know if this spectacular film will ever be released on DVD?
Rating:  - Absolutely Beautiful
A wonderful soundtrack to an awesome movie.
I can't listen to it enough, Thank you Philippe Rombi
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