Le café de mes souvenirs
Valto Baltazar
The love story of Emilie and Philippe takes place in Helsinki where Emilie works in her mother’s café and Philippe, a Frenchman, teaches French at a local high school. Song and music takes the lovers to Cherbourg and Paris. After their return Philippe begins to struggle under the pressure of multiple jobs. Will the fragile relationship of Emilie and Philippe last surrounded by the toughness of urban life?
Le café de mes souvenirs
Valto Baltazar
The love story of Emilie and Philippe takes place in Helsinki where Emilie works in her mother’s café and Philippe, a Frenchman, teaches French at a local high school. Song and music takes the lovers to Cherbourg and Paris. After their return Philippe begins to struggle under the pressure of multiple jobs. Will the fragile relationship of Emilie and Philippe last surrounded by the toughness of urban life?
SYNOPSIS :
Valto Baltzar is a film director and screenwriter based in Helsinki, Finland. Le Café de mes Souvenirs is an international,
French-Finnish musical written and directed by Baltzar. Songs composed for the movie are a central part of the film’s plot. Baltzar has written the lyrics for the songs, originally in the form of poems, and jazz composer Heikki Sarmanto has composed them into songs. Baltzar started his artistic collaboration with composer Sarmanto when Baltzar was a theatre director.
Valto Baltzar started his career in cinema and theatre as an actor and he studied in the Finnish Theatre School in Helsinki. Baltzar has written and directed theatre plays like In your eyes, Feared victim, Did I fall in love? and Fourth kingdom.
Composer
Heikki Sarmanto is a Finnish jazz pianist and composer. He studied first at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and later at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Sarmanto has been awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland.
Sarmanto has released over 40 recordings, numerous published scores, and songbooks, as well as having several film scores to his credit. He has collaborated with jazz musicians such as Sonny Rollins, Art Farmer, Helen Merrill, George Russell and Jeannine Otis in addition to his work in the classical arena. In September 1998 Sarmanto was appointed Artistic Director of the UMO Jazz Orchestra. Heikki Sarmanto has composed the songs for “Le Café de mes Souvenirs” based on poems and text written by director Baltzar.
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
One of the most respected and recorded symphony orchestras in the world, performs the score in the film. (Czech: Filharmonici města Prahy) is a classical orchestra, predominantly
composed of Czech classical, jazz and guest musicians. The orchestra plays and records music for every type of orchestral project including CD albums, major international films, television series and video games. Previous work of the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra includes world renowned feature films the likes of James Bond, Harry Potter and Pan’s Labyrinth.