He makes you feel what it feels like to be alone at the top. Whoever sees and hears him suddenly knows more about the search for the right path that drives every serious person. His stage characters touch the heart. The bass Gunther Groissbock embodies kings, scholars, philosophers in the great opera houses of the world; he plays priests, mythical creatures, gods. You could say he specializes in solitary figures. The result is a film portrait that tells of a special attitude to life; of loneliness as a source of artistic strength; of a man who can fill his voice with content from within. The film about Gunther Groissbock tells of two lines from a Ruckert poem, set to music by Gustav Mahler: 'I live alone in my heaven, in my loving, in my song.'

• Genre: Classical
• Label: GRAMOLA
• MPAA Rating: NR