Jean Sibelius Valse Triste from Kuolema for orchestra OP 44

[FreilenCicelhen]

Маленький бедолага ((

[CreateMus1C]

wierd video :o

[MrChowderClam]

It's really open to lots of interpretation, but imho it's still about the dead yearning and reaching to bring themselves back from the dead and failing. The valse was originally written for a play where a sick woman falls asleep and wakes to the sound of music and sees people dancing. She dances with them, but they fade - she dances more vigorously and they return, only to leave when someone knocks at the door, flinging it open. The music stop and the woman is left alone with death at the door.

[cityinthehead]

I saw this video for the first time when I was 6 years old, on a original copy. I dreamed, I had many white nights and I cried so much about it. And now, I watch this on youtube and I cry again. This is the saddest movie that I saw in my life...and the most beautiful animation and creation too!

[srlucado]

This is the single saddest animated clip I have ever seen. It has lost none of its impact since I first saw it over 30 years ago.

[catchersmitt0]

The worst thing is when no one needs you.

[XisforExtinct]

What's strange is that most of Allegro non Troppo is pretty irreverent and lighthearted, but then you get to this part, which is just absolutely chilling.

[AdvertisePlay]

It ruined my childhood!

[maxtherover525]

wow thank you so much for uploading this clip! This and the Firebird Suite clip have to be my favorite Allegro non troppo animations

[LadyStonefish]

I remember this movie... When I was young I saw... and also now I'm crying... miss my little cat... :'( All the movie Allegro ma non troppo is very nice... old style, but nice!! thks

[JuanRamirezFuentes]

good story I felt sorry, as it is called the song in the background? please

[khaals]

@JuanRamirezFuentes Valse Triste, by Sibelius.

[Kan2209]

Life.

[joseangelbribiesca]

desde que mire por primera vez este video en un canal cultural hace ya mas de 10 anos

comberti en mi piesa favorita de musica clasica(te agradesco que me hayas echo llorar de nuevo con esta piesa)

[JuanRamirezFuentes]

@joseangelbribiesca como se llama el tema de fondo de este video ?

[khaals]

One of my favorites for years. I always reckoned that this had once been a beautiful country estate, then the family died when criminal speculators bombed the place to make way for more soulless apartment blocks. Something a bit like that happens in The Crow (1994), to which this cartoon bears some resemblance. Anyone thought of comparing the 2? Don't you think Brandon Lee would make a nice pussycat?

[BuckieBear]

Thanks for posting! THis is so bittersweet and beautiful - I haven't seen it in years (have to fix the audio on my computer) but I heard the music (I have heard before) today on radio and decided to look for a posting.

[DiVeronica]

Is there no valse triste with good audio quality? what the hell

[BuckieBear]

@DiVeronica There is also a posting from someone named "MustBe18YearsOrOlder" on YouTube of basically the same segment, but my audio is not working, perhaps it's a better sound. The video on this edition seems to be clearer, though.

[PurpleWitchAla]

Wow...at around 2:00 I started crying... and thousand thoughts came through my head. This song is so sad and the video suits it perfectly. Amazing work.

[anasthasys]

since Plato's time glimpses of virtual plus-dimentionality never let us rest...

and sometimes music can get to be an all-inclusive answer , just saying :)

[mrpotatohead34]

Does this piece show the disaster of war, how many cities, homes have been destroyed leaving many people homeless? While having the desire to re-live all the good times, and great memories before the war? or does it represent how time can make things we remembered, and turn it unrecognizable?

[SpaceCowboyEd]

everything everyone wrote is So true, and always makes me cry. espacially the look of hapines on the cat's face and then the deep sadness whe it realizes it's all gone everthing and everyone the cat loved it's gone forever.

i've never been so sad watching anything else.

thank you for posting it.

[cvm0101]

Perfect, so powerful, so beautiful... 

[Rosebunse]

It reminds me of my cat. Poor cat...Crap, now I can't stop crying!

[kilroysoft]

Just missing the following scene, with the whole orchestra of old poeple crying. Watch the film, it's a must.

[jdbrown371]

chahar4panj5... I recognize your language, Farsi. It would be nice if my country would stop trying to make your country resemble this cats home.

[teknoketer]

unhappy cat, I feel a sadness for the cat, I can not help. wonderful animation

[datasurferable]

Makes me cry every time

[pacopica1]

i'm too

[pacopica1]

cry every time 

[Alessandrioux]

Dear AkaMouse....thanks so much 4 your answer, i'll search in there....i hope will get it....thanks again and have a nice day

[azalaia]

I am very impressed and life goes on and will stop one day...

[Alessandrioux]

where i can buy this video clip on DVD, please.....i need it!!!

[Alessandrioux]

I whant to buy this video on a DVD, please somebody tellme where or how can i get it.....please

[akaMouse]

@Alessandrioux just search on amazon... its for sale. Allegro Non Troppo by Bruno Bozzetto

[Chickengirl005]

man when I first saw this I was bawling my eyes out..when you watch the whole film..most of it is comedic and fun, and then THIS sequence comes along and totally throws you off.

beautiful piece though...the animation is synced so well with the music..and the cat gives off its emotions so well.  one of Bozzetto's best pieces IMO.

[Mocdip]

Our band played this piece with the cartoon in the fall. It's a moving piece to play.

[Tilosender]

8/10 lloran me incluyo

[salix44]

Ce morceau de musique que j'aime ne m'a jamais paru aussi triste qu'avec ce fantôme de chat qui redonne vie aux habitants de cet immeuble....

Beaucoup de sensibilité .. très beau ...

[selvaggia002]

Quegli occhietti mi emozionano tanto....

Adoro questo brano di questo fantastico film, non ha nulla da invidiare ai cartoons americani...

Bozzetto, la poesia incarnata.

[fairportfan2]

As i said when i reviewed the film when if first came out (yeah, i am that old): "...the sad ghost of a cat haunting the ghost of a house..."

My first wife would leave the room for the duration of this segment when we were viewing our VHS copy.

TheDutchGhost: Must disagree (to some extent) with your "I guess the message is that everything dies and fades away in time, even memories."

Memories - specifically IDEAS - are the one thing that DOESN'T (always) fade away.

[TheDutchGhost]

@fairportfan2 But an idea is something else than a memory.

Can you really pass on the feeling of excitement you felt perhaps on your eleventh birthday?

Or write down the happiness you felt when you perhaps held your first child?

You can write it down or tell others but eventually even that has a limited span of existence.

[theevhorscope]

One of the saddest thing I've got in my (small) videoteque is the 2nd cover of my Allegro Non Troppo DVD. Is not a frame of the movie but shows the cat delicately smiling like in 2:31. Once you've seen the movie, is enought to kill you ;_;

[mcasual]

i posted this video in YT a few years ago but a movie company had it removed - i hope yours stays longer ! :) i first saw it in the 70's it was shown in school i think, the tickets were about $1 :)

[Erge08]

So touching! I love every second of "Allegro non troppo". Good old times. A pity that such brilliant films no longer be shown publicly.

[AbbilAndreea]

i have cried with this wonderful video...so nostalgic and tragic...and off corse sibelius' music impossible better...

[mangaoutakumum]

i saw this as child and it haunted me my whole life...every time i see an old abandoned building this film comes to mind still after 20 years!!!!

I am so glad i found this today:)

[WagnerMahler]

I weep now.....so touching...

And another question, this is the recording conducted by Herbert von Karajan, am i right?

[mahler71]

Kaseywak, No, you're right, but you can think about all you've lost as you are dying.

[kaseywak]

True ... or you can think of all you've got. Family, love, and perhaps even faith. :)

[Clarinet16]

according to you, when i saw this film i can apreciatte that, enjoy the life and run to hug you loved people.

[Clarinet16]

genio

[kaseywak]

I watched this yesterday and gave it a day to sink in.

This isn't quite a review as much as it is a response. One can easily (and will likely) view this movie as a damning dose of reality: all that is will someday cease to be, never to be remembered. We will all die, and the lives that we enjoy so much will perish along with our bodies. The image of a lonely cat chasing memories of family is a painful reminder of this admitted truth.

[kaseywak]

(continued)

Yet this idea is completely absurd: no cat (or person) would wander after they are dead and be forced to realize all that they have lost. That is perhaps the greatest beauty of death: no sorrow, no regrets.

You, however, are not dead. Take the time to appreciate your life. Run freely, laugh loudly, and go hug your loved ones. If you're reading this, then you're alive. Go out and enjoy it.

[mattigna]

esagerato... commovente... appassionante.. struggente!

[juejue777]

DamaDeLiri0, ¿Cómo se llama esa pelicula?... Exceltente el tema, y la representación!!.

Thanks

[Frollo89]

se llama allegro non troppo es una pelicula italiana

[sonicfanatic4949]

abandoned and deserted, the cat was projecting memories of its life, only to realise it was only an illusion, when he finds out that he himself is just a memory projecting itself among our world. And that now not even a memory of the house exists.

Everything fades, even memories.

[S4lli]

Everything in this video is so sad. I however have to disagree with you about the idea. So many things fade through time, which I find very sad and agonizing, but not memories.

I think the cat could be a soul of a cat still wandering in it's old home. When the cat realises that there is just memories left it's really sad, because it's all alone there and doesn't want be there anymore, because it's sad and lonely. That is sad also, but soul I hope can go to a better place...

[S4lli]

continues

Memories doesn't fade. I mean what the cat just had? Memories! I think that memories can stay here even after death. Maybe even dead can have still memories. Maybe I think too far now. But I must agree with Kaseywak

"Yet this idea is completely absurd: no cat (or person) would wander after they are dead and be forced to realize all that they have lost. That is perhaps the greatest beauty of death: no sorrow, no regrets." I mean "You're dead this's what you lost." Awful!

[S4lli]

continues

It can't be like that.

However the cat has died. Maybe it hasn't lost anything. Maybe the cat is with it's family now, when it's soul perhaps moved forward and didn't have to see the rest of it's home to be tear down, we don't know.

[digitalshark]

Awesome that you posted this. I had it favorited and posted on my page for the longest time, but that post of this was pulled. This is possibly my favorite piece of animation ever made. The only problem is I can only view it once in a great while. It absolutely crushes me every single time. Thanks.

[Messenger33]

Garfield is dead. Google it.

[povepupe]

la mia disfatta. E' finita,addio.

[DamaDeLiRi0]

Precioso!!! Me encanta! Cuando era pequeña veía esta película muy a menudo! :) Me trae muchos recuerdos. Y se ve estuopendamente!

[wolfcat1998]

Wow... I've never seen this before, and I'm glad that I did. I actually cried a little...

[astroboy1960]

Great clip, one of the highlights of the film IMHO. Funny and sad. Thanks.

[HailAnts]

To each his own, but there are many, many words I would use to describe this video. Funny is not one of them.

Soul-crushing, despondent, disheartened, dejected, miserable, and helplessly, punishingly sad perhaps. But not funny.

Unless you meant the whole of Allegro Non Troppo...

[Venatius]

To be fair, although I mostly agree with you, some of the cat's expressions and reactions ARE a little bit on the silly side. The ending is unquestionably tragic though.

[RetroToledo]

@HailAnts The whole film is a cornucopia of emotions and expressions as far as I see it. Yes it's a spoof of Fantasia, but also quite and interesting diversion into mayhem, moods and merriment.

[pcmendes1973]

Thanks for posting.

It is interesting that video's "story" somewhat resembles Arvid Järnefelt's play.

[blackr6se]

Thank you so much!

[kasienka648]

that song is great!!!!!!!!!! I love this!

[stagemystic]

Thank you for sharing this. I saw this years ago and it always makes me cry... I love it!

[tootstanner]

I adore this work, it's a very haunting and sad, but yet incredibly beautiful....I really enjoyed the video.....

Thank you yek1do2se3

[yek1do2se3]

Thank you for your nice comment,i just uploaded the video.

Jean Sibelius the composer and Brunno Bozzetto the movie maker they did the great work.

Thanks for both...........;-)

[mib1996]

that's exactly what i would say...i cry every time i see this video (i have the film allegro non troppo). thanks for posting (both the video and the comment ;))

[slrmclaren80]

one of the most beautiful blend of music and animation... Love Sibelius´Valse Triste since i was 5yo, and love this video... its so sad...I agree with U TheDutchGost probably thats the message

[foreveraien]

bellissimo,meraviglioso,ero piccino quando lo vidi per la prima volta ormai saranno anni che non lo fanno piu' in tv...

[HomuraHyuuga]

la tv di oggi non apprezza più capolavori come questo. semplicemente immortale nei cuori di chi lo vide anni e anni fa.

[nhdbbcb]

Io ho 23anni....pensa che l'ho visto alle 2 di notte su mediaset, durante uno speciale di Bruno Bozzetto! un piccolo sporadico regalo di mediaset..ogni tanto qualcosa di buono..comunque si, è un capolavoro di animazione. C'è forma e contenuto, non gli manca ninte

[canelo70]

Este parte siempre la he encontrado bellamente triste. Uno de las mejores series animadas que he visto en mi vida. Poesía pura, y ese gato de mierda, que te dan ganas de lllorar de nostalgia. UN 10

[TheDutchGhost]

I find this a very sad video, the ghost kitty reliving it's memories of better days while it wanders through the rubble that once was it's home, to disappear at the end of the movie before the house ruins are torn down.

I guess the message is that everything dies and fades away in time, even memories.

I know its an animation but I still feel sad for the cat even if its not real, guess that comes with being a cat lover.

[yek1do2se3]

Thank you for your wonderful comment.

I agree with you that "everything dies and fades away in time, even memories".

We are just visitors in this life......

[theflix815]

@TheDutchGhost It's very interesting that this film uses a cat as the main character to Jean Sibelius's "Kuolema." I used to be in an orchestra and played this all the time, our conductor told us the story that goes with this song is about a dying old woman and her last moments in her bed. She was reliving her memory and dancing with young men like a dream, and the end of the song was the end of her life. Very sad story with a sad song that tell a great many stories. Thanks for uploading!

[moltimodi]

meraviglioso...