Silk Road

Documentary Wiener Sängerknaben
-Year: 2008
-Year in film: ~2008
-Country: Austria
-Who in clothing: boys, sailor suit
-Who in clothing 2: other clothing
-Available on DVD: yes + BD
-I own: yes, TV recording
-Clothing occurence: often *
-Rating:  6/10
-Rating: ******
-Comment: Members of the Vienna Boys Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben) in long dark blue suits with light blue collars and white suits with dark clue collars, 3 thin stripes. Also other clothing like regular jeans, shiny shorts and other historical costumes. I will upload some pics later. (There are many on the Web anyway).

I think I don't have to tell anything about this famous Vienna Boys Choir. As announced before, it had been aired today; German title "Die Wiener Sängerknaben - Wege in die Ferne".  51 minutes. About half of this film are sailor suit scenes.

I have seen it before and don't remember that there are (or were in 2008) some US boys in this choir. Some boys are more handsome than others. And I don't like these modern rather light blue collars with this stripes. Synthetic shiny fabric which looks festive and is better than cotton. Different length collars, most are rather short. Few scenes in white suits.

This looks more like a promotional movie or making of for a Silk Road Tour. There are also earlier documentaries (however with other boys). I think rather few good scenes. In one a new member gets his suit also showing the collar a bit better. Similar scene on "L'Or des Anges" (see entry "Un peu de fièvre") which is much better, also showing other choirs, boys in tights and a lot of extras. I think I wouldn't buy Silk Road. Of course the voices are good, but I have enough choir music. And for the rest I prefer the classic sailor collars and there are better movies.

Rating 6-7. See also

Un peu de fièvre (rating 7+ for this short film, 9 or 10 for this DVD L'Or des Anges) and

Wiener Sängerknaben (rating 7)

Update: Now some pics for illustration the sailor suits. First pic showing the different length collars. But wide at the shoulders. Pic 2 showing the new choir member given his suit and hat. Also shown the new light blue color of the collar and the thin stripes. Last pic showing the white suits. Collar front and back shown, dark blue. Note that the scarves are inside the blouses and on the regular dark blue suits barely invisible (unpictured).
Aka Wege in die Ferne. I have some more posts of them (blog search).