[Nick Zwar]

CLOUD ATLAS has a great score by Tom Tykwer & Co and is probably the most expensive German movie ever produced. I love the movie (it is based on my favorite novel of this century) and the music fits.
I also like Terrence Malick’s A HIDDEN LIFE AS, which was a German/US co-production I think, with an excellent score by American composer James Newton Howard.
I guess we need to distinguish… Do we mean film scores by German composers (such as Zimmer, which we excluded because everybody knows him anyway), or German movies, which of course may have non-German composers (like THE NAME OF THE ROSE). I guess it’s more German composers for now.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

I mentioned PERFUME in the first post, and to me, that is still Tykwer (& co.)’s best score, in addition to LOLA RENNT. I think he had a new score out recently, name escapes me at the moment, but it wasn’t very impressive.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Christian Bruhn was mentioned earlier, still with us at 90. I just realized he scored the pirate series JACK HOLBORN, which I remember from my childhood when it was shown on Norwegian TV in the mid 80s, a few years after its German 1982 premiere. I think it was part of a regular children’s programme called “Sommerkino” (“Summer Cinema”), which was a thing for a few summers there.

Love that series, especially one scary sequence where he dived down to a sunken ship and encountered a skeleton or some such thing(?).

Did JACK HOLBORN ever get a soundtrack release?

[Malte Müller]

Over here that was one of the Christmas mini series. Great fun score. Yes, there was a release: https://www.discogs.com/release/3211107-Christian-Bruhn-Jack-Holborn-Die-Musik-Von-Christian-Bruhn-Aus-Der-Gleichnamigen-Fernsehserie

I thought it was still available digitally but seems not so. But you find parts on Youtube.

[GerateWohl]

On Amazon I found a CD album of his score for “Silas” and the animated series “Sindbad”. But Jack Holborn seems not to be available anymore.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Thanks! Great that it has a release, but yes — it seems absolutely impossible to find on the internet, outside maybe a track or two on YouTube. Shame.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

After the great success of JACK HOLBORN awhile back, I’m finally giving Christian Bruhn’s famous CAPTAIN FUTURE a go. Wasn’t aware it was funky space disco! I dig it. Of course, it also makes me think of former member Captain Future, who was the first person to post on this forum, but then disappeared forever.

[Nick Zwar]

I mentioned PERFUME in the first post, and to me, that is still Tykwer (& co.)’s best score, in addition to LOLA RENNT. I think he had a new score out recently, name escapes me at the moment, but it wasn’t very impressive.

Last score I remember from Tom Tykwer was The Matrix Resurrections, but that’s a couple of years old now.

[Malte Müller]

After the great success of JACK HOLBORN awhile back, I’m finally giving Christian Bruhn’s famous CAPTAIN FUTURE a go. Wasn’t aware it was funky space disco! I dig it.

Yeah, great fun score. I heard the original japanese version and while its not bad it cannot compete childhood memories 😉

[Thor Joachim Haga]

I’ve now reached a string of three German composers named Philipp in a row in my collection walkthrough.

First off is Philipp F. Kölmel’s large and symphonic adventure score for RUBINROT (2013). Then follows Philipp Noll’s equally oldfashioned TRAUMFABRIK (2019). Finally, there’s RECYCLING LILY (2012) by Philipp Schweidler and Moritz Schneider, which is very eclectic, but also delightful.

Not sure if any of you are familiar with any of these, but they are all recommended. You have much to be proud of in Germany (even though I dislike the work of Volker Bertelmann….so let’s keep him out of it for the moment).

[Malte Müller]

I think I heard Philipp F. Kölmel’s RUBINROT (part of a teen fantasy filn series if I recall right) and liked it. I don’t have it. I think I saw watched TRAUMFABRIK but I neither recall score or movie in detail. Of the other two I have not heard including the movie.

I have my problems with Bertelmann as well. But I know far too few scores to really have really fixed opinion.

[Forfatter]

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