Two hundred orchestral musicians are playing Beethoven's Ninth 'Freude schoener Goetterfunken'. A power cut strikes just a few bars before the last movement. Problems like this are the — least of the worries facing the only... more » symphony orchestra in the Congo. In the 15 years of its existence, the
musicians have survived two putsches, various crises and a war. But concentration on the music and hopes for a better future keeps them going. Kinshasa Symphony is a study of people in one of the world's most chaotic cities doing their best to maintain one of the most complex systems of joint human endeavour: a symphony orchestra. The film is about the Congo, the people in Kinshasa and the power of music.« less