O, Fortuna! (2008)

The true story of 'Carmina Burana', this ever-popular masterpiece, performed in Orff's original orchestration and sounding utterly different from what we normally hear. It forms the backbone of Tony Palmer explosive film about its composer Carl Orff, a man wracked with guilt about his mendacious and tragic behaviour during Hitler's Germany. This film will change forever our understanding of this tormented soul. With Carl Orff himself, interviewed before he died, three of his wives and his daughter; filmed in Germany, Greece, South Africa, Japan, China and England..