New sound adaption of the silent movie classic "Berlin - the symphony of the big city" by the renowned film composer Matthias Petsche, accompanied live by the chamber choir Canzoneo conducted by Nils Jensen.

With his collage, which combines free-tonal surfaces with folk song and vocussion.
with folk song and vocussion - percussion-imitating sounds, which the singers produce
create - with Berlin street songs. The chamber choir Canzoneo, known for its extremely homogeneous sound, realizes this with a great precision in singing together.

"Kino a Cappella" not only revives the old musical tradition of silent film music, but transforms it through the song texts into an entertaining search for traces of the 1920s:
Newspaper articles from 1927 - the year of the film's premiere - provide additional
about the everyday, the amusing and the absurd in the city of Berlin at that time.
Berlin of that time.