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aka Nothing To Lose (1991)
aka Abgedreht - Nothing
To Lose (1992) (Germany)
aka Gesellschaft für
Mrs. DiMarco (1992) (Germany)
aka Tod in Brunswick
(1992) (Germany)
Black comedy set in Brunswick, Melbourne. Carl Fitzgerald (Sam Neill) is employed as a cook in a seedy nightclub and becomes involved in the death of kitchen hand and drug dealer Mustafa (Nico Lathouris). His best friend Dave (John Clarke) is a gravedigger. Carl's girlfriend, Sophie Papafogos (Zoe Carides) works in the club, but Carl is unaware that she is betrothed to the club's owner Yanni Voulgaris (Nicholas Papademetriou).
Director: John Ruane
Music: Phil Judd; Peter Volaris
Sam Neill sings "I Got You" (Neil Finn)
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Soundtracks |
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Album
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Cassette single (plays same both sides)
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Promo single
Phil Judd "Death In Brunswick"/same as A side
Compilation album
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Album track listing |
From the soundtrack album - CD and Cassette listings are identical:-
"Death In Brunswick" (Philip Judd)
"The Last Straw" (Philip Judd)
"Carl's First Confession" (Philip Judd)
"Sofia" (Peter Volaris)
"Dave's House" (Philip Judd)
"Impromptu Amour" (Philip Judd)
"Carl's Cinema" (Philip Judd)
"Sinantisis" (Peter Volaris)
"Laurie's Farewell" (Philip Judd)
"Carl's Second Confession" (Philip Judd)
[Side Two of cassette]
"Bombay Bombing" (Philip Judd)
"Forgiveness" (Philip Judd)
"Cheap And Nasty" (Philip Judd)
"The Very Last Straw" (Philip Judd)
"Mahler's Symphony No.5 'Adagietto'
(Excerpt)"
performed by The New York Philharmonic,
conducted by Zubin Mehta
"Carl's Third Confession" (Philip Judd)
"Leventikos Horos" (Peter Volaris)
"Death In Brunswick" (Philip Judd)
Produced by Philip Judd
Recorded and Mixed by Chris Corr
Musicians:-
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Article in the cassette liner notes/CD lyric booklet |
The music score to "Death In Brunswick" plays a major part in establishing the atmosphere of the film. Although the film centres around the Anglo Saxon lead character, it is set in a Greek owned nightclub in an inner city suburb with a large ethnic population. The majority of supporting characters are of Greek and Turkish origins.
"It was important that the music help establish and enhance this atmosphere while at the same time maintaining a strong contemporary flavour" said Ruane. "We considered a number of composers before we decided on Philip Judd. He is a great melody writer and we knew that as long as the arrangements and instrumentation were right we would get that mixture of contemporary and ethnic that we needed".
Philip had just completed the score to "The Big Steal", for which he won the 1990 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Original Score, when commissioned to compose the score for "Death In Brunswick".
Best known as a founder member of Split Enz, Philip spent seven years with the band writing the majority of the band's early material. He wrote "Counting The Beat", a number one single in 1980 for his next group, The Swingers and is currently a member of the critically acclaimed band Schnell Fenster, whose second album is scheduled for a May 1991 release.
He composed the score to Gillian Armstrong's feature "Starstruck" and wrote six songs for Wendy Matthews to perform in "Rikky & Pete" prior to scoring "The Big Steal" and "Death In Brunswick".
While Philip enlisted well known Melbourne musician Peter Volaris to compose three uniquely Greek pieces for "Death In Brunswick" he composed the balance in his home studio. Once the themes were written, Philip engaged a combination of Australian and Greek musicians to assist in the recording.
"It was an extremely challenging assignment" said Philip. "Although melodies are melodies the world over the expression of those melodies takes a variety of forms in a geographical sense. Scoring 'Death In Brunswick' meant coming to grips with arrangement techniques and instrumentation I hadn't worked with before. I even taught myself to play bazouki, in a very rudimentary fashion, I might add."
The result is an excellent example of Philip's creativity. The music significantly enhances the atmosphere of the film through out and as added bonus, the individual themes maintain their integrity and in fact assume another dimension when presented in isolation.
With "Death In Brunswick" Philip Judd has created another piece of work which can only enhance his existing reputation as one of the most brilliant and original musicians of his era.
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Movie music credits |
Opening credits:
Original Music Philip Judd
Closing credits:
Original Music
Score Composed and Produced by Philip Judd
Recorded by
Chris Corr
Performed by
Philip
Judd - Keyboards, bouzouki, acoustic guitars
Jen Anderson - Violin, viola
John Barrett - Clarinets, flute
Euripides Euripidou - Acoustic guitar,
bass
Joe Chindamo - Accordian
George Spirou - Bouzouki
'Sophia', 'Sinantisis' and 'Leventikos
Horos'
Written by Peter Volaris
Produced by
Philip Judd
Mahler's Symphony No.5 "Adagietto"
Performed by Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Amsterdam
Conductor Bernard Haitink
Victoria Requiem: Kyrie
Performed by the Tallis Scholars
Directed by Peter Phillips
"Who's Gonna Love You", "Never" and
"Heart Of Darkness"
Written by Archy Akron, Arthur Christo,
John Raptis
Performed by Knight
"Living Fire", "Run By Night", "Danger"
and "Take Me"
Written by Mark Bremner, Tony Bucci,
Nick Cetrola, Tony Dilaveris and Colin Roydez
Performed by Vortex
"I Got You"
Written by
Neil Finn
Performed
by Sam Neill
Music Co-Ordinator
Rebecca O'Brien for Mana Music Productions
Soundtrack album available on WEA Records.
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Notes |
Sam Neill sings "I Got You" (Neil Finn) which was originally recorded by Split Enz. He played 'Stewart' in The Piano, (NZ 1993).
John
Clarke played Mike Rooke in Les Patterson Saves
The World (Aus 1987) and Wal in Footrot
Flats: The Dog's Tale (1986).
(Not credited
on these pages - info from the Internet Move Database.)
Although spelled Louis McManes, this may be Louis McManus who played on The Big Steal (Aus 1990) soundtrack (?and was a member of the Bushwackers, worked with Eric Bogle amongst others). Phil Judd worked on Death In Brunswick shortly after The Big Steal.
'Death In Brunswick' by Boyd Oxlade was first published by as novel in 1987.
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Movie release information |
Opened: 26 April 1991
Video: Applause Home Video (Aus)
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Classification |
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Links |
Death In Brunswick (Aus 1991) (Internet Movie Database)
Death in Brunswick (Wikipedia) (Spoiler)
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Sources of information |
Album track listing (cassette/CD); Aus Film; Discography; Film Rev 92-3; Halliwell; Internet Movie; movie; MusicMaster; single; TiTM
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