Overture (1958 film)
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Overture is a 1958 Canadian short
documentary film
directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro
. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short
.
The film depicts the peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations
, set against the music of Beethoven's Egmont Overture
, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
.
Short subject
A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro
Gian Luigi Polidoro
Gian Luigi Polidoro was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 15 films between 1958 and 1998...
. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short
Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
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The film depicts the peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
, set against the music of Beethoven's Egmont Overture
Egmont (Beethoven)
Egmont, Op. 84, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It consists of an overture followed by a sequence of nine additional pieces for soprano, male narrator and full symphony orchestra...
, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The Vienna Philharmonic is an orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the world....
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