K364 A Journey by Train (2010)

Avri Levitan and Roi Shiloah are a pair of acclaimed classical musicians from Israel who were booked to play a special concert in Poland performing Mozarts Concert Symphony in EFlat Major with one of the nations leading orchestras the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of the Polish Radio However the two musicians chose an unusual route to get there viola player Levitan and violinist Shiloah took the train from Berlin to Warsaw in effect following the same path their parents were forced to use when they were sent to the Third Reichs death camps in 1939 Filmmaker Douglas Gordon and his camera crew were on hand for the trip and K364 A Journey By Train is a documentary that contrasts the beauty of Mozarts music and the enthusiasm of two world class musicians with the legacy of one of the darkest episodes in human history