The Soundtrack Album of my original music for the DOCUMENTARY ‘the red orchestra’ is now available online!

Considering its recent string of documentary releases, MovieScore Media launches its new

documentary-focused sub-label called Reality Bytes. The sub-label intends to release the

best and most interesting documentary titles on the market, where both the topic of the film

as well as the quality of the score merit further attention. The inaugural title of the new

sub-label is The Red Orchestra with music by Eloi Ragot.

Written and directed by Carl-Ludwig Rettinger, the movie re-examines the story of the Red Orchestra: the most

important resistance network in Nazi Germany, whose operations extended from Berlin and

Brussels to Paris. The album features Eloi Ragot’s score recorded with the Budapest

Symphony Orchestra and coincides with the premiere of the film in Germany.

"I first thought working on a WW2 documentary was a bit tricky because of the sheer scope

of the story”, said Eloi Ragot. “But Carl-Ludwig Rettinger pushed me to be as near as

possible to the characters, their feeling, their ideas, their love affairs, and especially one of

the main founders of the Red Orchestra, Leopold Trepper.

That led to the decision to have a

rather small-sized orchestra, with piano as well as cimbalom, a Hungarian instrument. It

brings to me this Eastern and 'film noir' sound and its bounciness underlines well how bold

and courageous the members of the organisation were.

I based many musical themes on

rhythms and ostinatos to reflect the way those people were always on the move in order not

to get caught. Also, some electronic and in particular Moog synth pads and percussions

were a perfect match to the many images of the films shot in the 70s about the Red

Orchestra and help bringing a modern view on the events."