Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a breakneck concert tour of six metropolises across Asia: Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo. Their artistic triumph onstage belies a dynamic and dramatic life backstage. The orchestra is a closed society that observes its own laws and traditions, and in the words of one of its musicians is, “an island, a democratic microcosm – almost without precedent in the music world - whose social structure and cohesion is not only founded on a common love for music but also informed by competition, compulsion and the pressure to perform to a high pitch of excellence... .” Never before has the Berlin Philharmonic allowed such intimate and exclusive access into its private world.
| Directing | Thomas Grube | Director |
| Camera | René Dame | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Alberto Venzago | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Anthony Dod Mantle | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Martin Hoffmann | Editor |
| Sound | Simon Stockhausen | Sound Designer |
| Production | Uwe Dierks | Producer |
| Production | Thomas Grube | Producer |
| Production | Andrea Thilo | Producer |
| Production | Alan Yentob | Producer |
| Production | Anca Monica Pandelca | Producer |
| Writing | Thomas Grube | Screenplay |
| Camera | Stefan Ciupek | Additional Photography |
| Camera | Stefan Ciupek | Camera Operator |
| Production | Peter Hermann | Executive Producer |
| Production | Marc Wächter | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Bernd von Bassewitz | Sound |
| Sound | Pascal Capitolin | Sound |
| Directing | Lukas Macher | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Robert Jäger | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Florian Beck | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Tom Korr | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Tom Korr | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Simon Stockhausen | Original Music Composer |
