The film attempts to unveil the stories contained in the improvised instruments and the numerous post cards sent from the front that have been conserved as first-hand witnesses of their time. It retraces the destinies of the people we encounter in those testimonies. As an example that of August Thurau and Albert Ansorge, both soldiers of the 6th Reserve Infantry Regiment, who built that duble bass which then was painted by heir comrade, the artist Walter Schultz-Matan who bequeathed that instrument after WWI to the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt.
„Sounds of Somme“ is a film which will accompany and document all stages of the project. It will be shown on tv and in movie theatres, recalling to the spectators’ memory what is at risk in Europe if we forget what makes its strength.
The production company, bernsteinfilm, using professional equipment (RED 4K), has already filmed the following segments:
- The search for shell casings in the former battlefields of the Somme
- Dominique Zanardi’s café-museum in the town of Pozières (the reconstruction site of a trench were found about 1500 shell casings as well as numerous other objects associated with the First World War
- Acoustic tests in the Lochnagar crater. Bernhard Zanders plays there a reconstructed musical instrument.
- Taking of the measurements of the double bass in Ingolstadt by the lute maker Bernhard Zanders in order to reconstruct that instrument.
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