48 - Silenced Tones

A music documentary about the Nazis’ looting and eradication of Jewish musical life during the 1930s and 1940s. The film follows conductor Sofia Winiarski’s work on staging the production “Stolen Music” at Folkoperan in Stockholm. It highlights music by Jewish composers that the Nazis systematically tried to erase from music history. In her search for music that survived, Sofia travels to Warsaw to find scores and text fragments in the archives. For Sofia, it is both a professional and a persona