Köln '75 Film

The girl from Cologne...

'Köln 75'

Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert album, drawn from a single concert at Germany’s Cologne Opera House on January 24, 1975, enjoys cult status and is one of the bestselling jazz albums of all time with some four million copies sold.

In the backdrop, the circumstances around the concert’s organization by precocious, 18-year-old concert promoter Vera Brandes have gone down in jazz folklore.

On the 50th anniversary of the historic concert, the story has been dramatized by German director Ido Fluk in Köln 75, and Deadline can reveal a first trailer ahead of its premiere as a Berlinale Special Gala.

Köln 75 Official Poster

Köln 75 Official Movie Poster

Köln '75 Film

KINO: 75 Jahre Berlinale - Ein Spezial zum Jubiläum

KINO: 75 Jahre Berlinale - Ein Spezial zum Jubiläum

Stand: 20.02.2025 20:22 Uhr

Köln '75 Film

The girl from Cologne...

Köln '75

Vera Brandes, who, in 1975 and at the age of 18, staged the famous Köln Concert by jazz musician Keith Jarrett.

Variety Global Article

Berlinale film 'Köln 75' recreates how an 18-year-old music promoter pulled off a music biz coup

How Teenager Vera Brandes Staged a Keith Jarrett Concert That Made Jazz History

Fifty years ago today, 18-year-old Vera Brandes organized a concert for jazz pianist Keith Jarrett in Cologne, West Germany, which went on to make music history: a recording of the concert became the best-selling solo jazz album ever as well as the best-selling piano recording ever. Now director Ido Fluk and producers Sol Bondy and Fred Burle from One Two Films have made a film, titled “Köln 75,” that dramatizes the events leading up to the concert, with its world premiere to be held at the Berlinale next month. Varietyspoke to Brandes about her memories of the night. Bankside is handling the international sales on the film, whose poster is exclusively revealed below.

  • Berlinale Presseabteilung (17. Dezember 2024)