Caldera Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack album for the 1997 Danish period drama The Island on Bird Street (Øen i Fuglegaden) directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, based on the novel of the same title by Uri Orlev and starring Patrick Bergin, Jordan Kiziukh, James Bolam, Jack Warden, Michael Byrne, Heather Tobias and Suzanna Hamilton. The album features the film’s original music composed by Zbigniew Preisner (When a Man Loves a Woman, The Secret Garden, Three Colors, The Queen of Spain, Between Strangers, Dekalog), presented as a 6-part “symphony” of extended suites. Visit the label’s official website for more information about the CD and to check out audio samples. The Island on Bird Street is set during World War II and tells the story of Jewish boy who is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival. The movie, which premiered at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival, was released theatrically in Denmark and other European markets later that year and is now available in the U.S. on VOD and DVD.
Here’s the track list of the album:
1. Part I Separation from the Family (6:33)
2. Part II Empty Street (6:55)
3. Part III Escaping the Ultimate Solution (8:30)
4. Part IV Dream (1:53)
5. Part V The Final Stage of the Fight for Life (13:15)
6. Part VI The Island on Bird Street (4:23)
