JS Bach: St Matthew Passion (1970)

"JS Bach: St Matthew Passion" is a 1970 movie directed by Johann Sebastian Bach and starring by Christina Landshamer, Stefan Kahle. The renowned St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig, which boasts J. S. Bach as a former cantor, celebrates its 800th anniversary with an extraordinary interpretation of the St. Matthew Passion. The Guardian praised how “the harmonic lines interwove with a transcendence that can only be achieved through living, eating and working together”.