The next film becoming available digitally courtesy Rockies Film Festival and Series is The Conductor.

Content becomes available April 11 at 10 p.m. after which you’ll have seven days to start watching. Once you begin, you’ll have 24 hours to finish watching. Need help?

The Conductor is based on a true story.

Have you ever heard of Antonia Brico? Don’t be ashamed if the answer to that question is “no.” Many people, even those with degrees in musical fields, have no idea who she is.

The short answer is that Brico is one of the most exceptional modern conductors of our time. She’s the first American to graduate from the Berlin State Academy of Music, and the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic. The Conductor is her story.

This inspiring transatlantic musical biopic is based on the brilliant, defiant spirit of Antonia Brico,  Born in the Netherlands and brought to the United States as a child in the 1920s, Antonia’s musical gifts soon guide her to want to lead an orchestra, an unimaginable idea for a woman in the male-dominated orchestral music scene of the time.

Dissuaded from such dreams by successive music teachers, Antonia is undaunted.

She returns to the Netherlands where she meets the famous conductor Willem Mengelberg, who  encourages her dream and arranges for her to study in Berlin. She also meets Frank, perhaps the love of her life but a somewhat conventional man who is not sure about Antonia’s ambitions.

After two years of intense life and study at the State Academy of Music in Berlin, is Antonia ready to take up the baton? Will she be permitted to? And will her dream of conducting destroy her love life?

Set against the riotous and increasingly darkening interwar historical period of the late 1920s and 1930, The Conductor is an engaging story of passion and commitment

Access the following link for full details, the trailer and ticketing information.

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