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Silent Night - A Song for the World is a musical documentary film about the creation and cultural impact of the world's famous Christmas carol, composed 1818 in Salzburg. Translated into 140 languages, Silent Night caused a Christmas truce in World War I, while Bing Crosby’s version is his second best-selling single.  

The film tells the story of Silent Night, narrated by Hugh Bonneville, with new recordings by global stars in different languages with a cast including Kelly Clarkson, Joss Stone, David Foster, Kathrine McPhee, Randy Jackson, Gavin Rossdale, Sheléa, Ailee, Josh Groban, The Vienna Boys Choir, Anggun, Lina Makhoul, The Tenors, Rolando Villazón and many more.[1]

The creation of the song and its journey around the world is being told in a mix of reenactment scenes with actors like John Rhys-Davies impersonating Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, telling the incredible story of the Christmas truce of 1914 between the British and the Germans caused by singing Silent Night, each in their trenches, and the origin of the song in Salzburg, its travel to Los Angeles and how it became so globally popular until to date.

The special was created and directed by Award winning director Hannes M. Schalle and produced by Marlene Beran of Moonlake Entertainment.[2][3]

Synopsis[edit]

Silent Night was composed in 1818, in harsh times, when people suffered from the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, horrible epidemics and a year without summer due to a super volcanic eruption. Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber wrote the song for a Christmas Eve service, and unknowingly made music history. At the time, miraculously the composition was picked up by the Tyrolean Rainer Singers, a travelling singers family - and so the song made its way to New York - and later to Los Angeles. But before it reached the new world, Silent Night became a peace song: in 1914, on the western frontline of WW1, German troops sang Silent Night in their trenches on Christmas Eve. The British soldiers heard that - and sang it as well in English. This led to the legendary Christmas truce of 1914.[4][5]

117 years after its first performance, history was made on December 25th 1934, when Bing Crosby sang Silent Night on a CBS radio show. Afterwards the song not only became part of Crosby's Christmas show for the next quarter of a century, he sold 30 Million singles of the recording and it is till today the 3rd best-selling single of all time.[6]

Today, all major Record Labels number around 6.000 recordings of the song; it has been translated into 140 languages an dialects. In 2011 the world's most popular Christmas carol has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage list in recognition of its role in fostering cultural diversity.[7]

The script was written by Hannes M. Schalle and Alistair Audsley and based on the 200 year spanning stories of the song. Additionally new arrangements and productions with international artists were conceived and produced.

Contributors[edit]

Production[edit]

The film was created, written and directed by Hannes M. Schalle produced by his production company Moonlake Entertainment. Principal Photography started in Winter 2018 in the Austrian Alps near Salzburg followed by other Austrian original locations in Salzburg and Tyrol where the story of Silent Night originated in the years between 1816 and 1818. then the production followed the travel of the song to the UK and the US. The entire film was shot on location in the following cities: Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, Banff, Toronto, London, on the Isle of Man and in Kent, Jerusalem, Kirovsky, Moscow, Paris, Seoul, Vienna, Florence and Mondsee. The final parts of the film were shot in 2020 during the Covid19 crisis and delivered in September 2020. Also during this period Hugh Bonneville agreed to be the on- and offscreen narrator of this important story of peace and hope. He was filmed at Hatchlands Park in the UK.

The film was produced by Marlene Beran and by Consulting Producer Paul Farberman. In total 576 crew and cast members were involved in the production in 8 countries. The production was co-financed by the Red Bull Media House TV branch ServusTV and by Telepool and acquired by The CW for the US and CTV for Canada.

The script followed the true stories of Silent Night from its origins in Salzburg until today and was staged in numerous reenactments in Austria, the UK and the US, if possible on original locations, if available and still in existence. Additionally to Salzburg and LA based reenactment actors the World War 1 Christmas Truce of 1914 was staged in the UK, in Elham, in a created First World War trench system, nestled between the cows and sheep at the 50-acre Round Hill Farm, is a 200-metre network with both British and German front lines. The filming with hundreds of extras was supervised by the renowned war historian Andy Robertshaw, who was an adviser and trench designer on set of the 2011 film War Horse, and visual effects supervisor Robin Aristorenas (The Martian, Interstellar, Iron Man 2, etc). Another extensive reenactment shooting took place on the Ilse of Man featuring John Rhys-Davies (Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, etc) impersonating Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig.

Additionally to all the historical background and reenactments the creator Hannes M. Schalle wanted to record several new versions of Silent Night in different languages and styles. The music production was consulted by Paul Farberman Entertainment.

Music[edit]

The music production for the film includes several multi Grammy Award winning producers and artists including David Foster, Humberto Gatica, Brian Rawling, John Fryer and Greg Phillinganes. Orchestral arrangements and parts of the film score were composed by William Ross and Rob Eckland as well as by John Debney and Hannes M. Schalle. The music production was recorded and produced at Germano Studios The Hit Factory (NYC), Capitol Studios (LA), British Grove Studios (London), Red Bull Records (LA) and many other Studios in Toronto, Vienna, Salzburg, Tel Aviv including performances of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and London Symphony Orchestra string section as well as Bella Musica Salzburg and featuring recording artists such as Nathan East, Paul Jackson Jr, Teddy Campbell and numerous others. The version featuring Sheléa was coproduced with Quincy Jones Productions.[8]

Release[edit]

The CW released the film on 10th December 2020 in the US and CTV released the film on 23rd December 2020 in Canada.[9][10]

References[edit]

  1. "Watch Kelly Clarkson Perform a Beautiful Rendition of 'Silent Night' with the Vienna Boys Choir". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  2. Oganesyan, Natalie; Oganesyan, Natalie (2020-11-18). "The Story of 'Silent Night,' as Told and Sung by Kelly Clarkson, Josh Groban, Joss Stone and More, Set for CW Special". Variety. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  3. "'Silent Night' Director supports Rotary with new festive film – Q&A with Hannes Schalle". Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland. 2020-12-11. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  4. "Christmas truce", Wikipedia, 2020-12-19, retrieved 2020-12-20
  5. enquiries@thetablet.co.uk, The Tablet-w. "Silent Night – a song for the world". The Tablet. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  6. "Songs Bing Crosby recorded multiple times", Wikipedia, 2020-05-31, retrieved 2020-12-20
  7. UNESCO-Kommission, Österreichische. ""Silent Night" - the Christmas carol". Österreichische UNESCO-Kommission (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  8. "Sheléa offers sneak peek at 'Silent Night' special on The CW". WPIX. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  9. "ViacomCBS Press Express | Silent Night - A Song for the World". cwtvpr.com. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  10. "Silent Night: A Song For The World". www.ctv.ca. Retrieved 2020-12-20.

External links[edit]

https://www.silentnight-movie.com/


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