@BadOrange said:
A particular idea for film I would enjoy would sort of revolve around the coming about of the third Reich and how that impacted much of the art community. You could have lot of perspectives from the virtuosic players in concentration camps, the dismals at the conservatories including if i'm not mistaken Schoenberg over "race" issues or in Schoenberg's instance his championing of Mahler and I suppose Strauss' relatively neither apposing or endorsing the actions taken. What material was banned and what was encouraged. And a remake of the Furtwängler Bruckner performances would be quite neat. In fact it would be interesting to know how many of the left over musicians felt as I can imagine many of them did not prescribe to the Nazi ideology and could care less whether a musician was jewish as long as he could play. I think I just like anything to do with WWII and WWII with musicians, well a new twist.
Wasn't The Pianist kind of sort of about that? I didn't see the film but I think it's about the Polish pianist Szpilman and the turmoil he went through during World War II. Again, I didn't see the film but I hear it's pretty good.